Geneva: “Yesterday, Wuhan reported no new cases for the first time since the outbreak started,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a virtual news conference. The WHO welcomed the news on Friday that the Chinese city where the new Coronavirus first emerged in December 2019, had for the first time reported no new cases in…
Digestive symptoms prominent among patients
March 21, 2020Beijing: Amid the rapid spread of Coronavirus cases around the globe, researchers have found that diarrhoea was a prominent symptom among up to half of patients with COVID-19 during the outbreak in Wuhan, China. The study has been published in The American Journal of Gastroenterology and was conducted by the researchers from the Wuhan Medical…
Droplets from infected persons are deadly: Dr. Chidambara
March 21, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: The Novel Coronavirus continues to spread around the world, prompting Governments to step up efforts to contain the spread of the disease it causes, officially known as COVID-19. Coronavirus spreads from person to person in close proximity, similar to other respiratory illnesses, such as the flu. Droplets of bodily fluids — such as saliva…
201 persons under surveillance in District
March 21, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: With the Corona pandemic extending its wings across the country with each passing day, the Mysuru District administration has stepped up measures to contain the deadly virus. The District Surveillance Cell of the Health and Family Welfare Department has pu 201 persons in city under surveillance, out of which 132, including 13 foreigners, are…
COVID-19 pandemic: Keep close watch on home quarantined persons: DC
March 21, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Stepping up measures for prevention of the spread of Coronavirus, Mysuru Deputy Commissioner (DC) Abhiram G. Sankar has asked officials to keep a watch on the movements of home-quarantined persons. In a directive issued on Friday, Abhiram G. Sankar said that officials from MCC, Revenue and other Departments should ensure that persons under home-quarantine…
Use Online Services: EPFO
March 21, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: On account of COVID-19 outbreak, the Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO), Regional Office (RO), Mysuru, subscribers are informed that they can avail EPFO services through various online modes of communication like e-mails, phone, webportal, umang app, WhatsApp and Twitter as mentioned below: E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 0821-2599200 or 2599222 WhatsApp: 86188-65124 or 78925-94813 Twitter: @EpfoMysore…
Two persons go missing
March 21, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: In separate cases, a 34-year-old man and a 25-year-old youth have gone missing from city. In the first case, 34-year-old Lokesh, a cook, who left his house on Mar. 2 at about 6 am saying that he was going to a hotel for work, has since gone missing. He is 5.6 ft. tall, wheatish…
Govt. to appoint youth volunteers as ‘Corona Warriors’
March 21, 2020To prevent spread of fake messages Mysore/Mysuru: Even as the Government is battling COVID-19 with all its might, the State Government has evolved a plan to appoint Youth Volunteers as ‘Corona Warriors’ to check the spread of false rumours and messages regarding the deadly disease. The Information and Public Relations Department, in association with Indian…
Yet another positive case in State; Total 16 now
March 21, 2020India’s tally climbs to 287; all commuters from Kodagu to Mysuru screened Bengaluru: Yet another COVID-19 positive case has surfaced in Karnataka to take the total number of affected to 16, Minister for Health B. Sriramulu said today. In his tweet, he said that a 36-year-old, who had returned from Mecca last week, went to…
4 Nirbhaya rape case convicts HANGED
March 20, 2020New Delhi: Seven years after a young medical student was gang-raped and tortured on a moving bus in New Delhi, a crime that shocked India, four of her killers were hanged at 5.30 am at Tihar Jail today. The pre-dawn execution took place less than two hours after the Supreme Court dismissed the final petition…
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