By Team Star of Mysore International Nurses Day is celebrated on May 12 (today) to mark the birth anniversary of Florence Nightingale (May 12, 1820 – August 13, 1910). She was also known as the ‘Lady with the Lamp’ and the ‘Angel of Crimea.’ Florence Nightingale and her team of nurses had worked round-the-clock to…
Doctors, Nurses feted on completion of quarantine at KSOU
May 12, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: As many as 14 doctors and 20 nurses, who not only went through the physical strain but also put up efforts to ensure the patient heals soon at the COVID Hospital in city and who were under home quarantine at the Karnataka State Open University (KSOU) Guest House for 14 days, were honoured by…
Lockdown stories to go on AIR from tomorrow
May 12, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Akashavani Mysuru will be starting a new series of programme titled ‘Lockdown Kathegalu’ (Lockdown Stories) which will go on AIR from May 13. The series feature stories related to lockdown. Public can send stories on own experience or anything that they witnessed during lockdown period with not more than 200 words. Selected stories will…
Bengaluru-based CSIR-National Aerospace Lab develops Non-Invasive Ventilator “SwasthVayu” in a record 36 days for COVID-19 patients
May 12, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: CSIR – National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL), Bengaluru, a constituent lab of CSIR, has developed a Non-Invasive BiPAP Ventilator “SwasthVayu” in a record time of 36 days to treat COVID-19 patients. BiPAP Non-Invasive Ventilator is a microcontroller-based precise closed-loop adaptive control system with a built-in biocompatible “3D printed manifold & coupler” with HEPA filter (Highly…
Mysuru can now handle 1,000 COVID tests per day
May 11, 2020DFRL donates Mobile Containment Lab PARAKH to K.R. Hospital on National Technology Day today State-of-the-art machine a boon during Biological Emergency Mysore/Mysuru: The Mysuru District Administration and the Mysore Medical College and Research Institute (MMCR&I) attached to K.R. Hospital, have got a shot in the arm for testing COVID-19 cases with a new testing facility…
14-day quarantine must for all those returning to State
May 11, 2020Bodies of those dead outside Karnataka cannot be brought in for cremation Bengaluru: All those who arrive from outside Karnataka should be compulsorily quarantined for 14 days even if asymptomatic before they are allowed to go home, said Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa. The CM cleared a list of protocols for people of Karnataka returning from…
107 Mysuru journalists test negative for COVID-19
May 11, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: All 107 city journalists, whose swab samples were collected on May 8, was tested and the lab reports have confirmed that the samples were negative. Presspersons including reporters, photographers and videographers of both print and electronic media have been working continuously during the lockdown. As a few journalists from Bengaluru and other places, who…
Inmates of Shelter Camps return to native places
May 11, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Hundreds of people sheltered in temporary shelter homes across the city following the COVID-19 lockdown have started returning to their native places after the lockdown curbs were relaxed last week. While some of them have returned to their villages, others have returned for labour. Subsequent to the announcement of nationwide lockdown in the last…
Mysuru beauticians seek financial aid from Govt.
May 11, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Hard hit by COVID-19 lockdown, the city beauty parlour owners have urged the State Government to declare financial assistance to them. A delegation of office-bearers of Mysuru District (City) Beauticians and Beauty Parlour Owners Association submitted memorandums in this regard to the Deputy Commissioner, the Mayor and the MCC Commissioner on Saturday. Pointing out…
Mysuru readies to receive 2,500 foreign returnees
May 10, 2020District Administration takes over 170 hotels for quarantining Foreign travellers will have to foot their own hotel bills Mysore/Mysuru: More than 11,000 residents of Karnataka stranded in foreign countries are set to arrive by special international flights under Vande Bharat Mission and the Mysuru District Administration has taken measures to receive the natives of Mysuru,…
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