Zone-wise Care Centres on cards; MCC calls for door-to-door survey volunteers Mysore/Mysuru: In another effort towards decentralisation of COVID management, the Mysuru District Administration is setting up COVID Care Centres (CCCs) in all the Assembly constituencies and also in Zones for more localised management. Though the taluks of Mysuru have 18 CCCs, there is no…
Mysore/Mysuru: Along with the team of doctors, frontline workers and healthcare staff, who are working to minimise the devastating impact of COVID-19 pandemic, there is a dedicated team of lab technicians who are collecting samples for RT-PCR tests at over 10 points in city. Among the swab-collection centres across Mysuru city, the centre located at…
Mysore/Mysuru: Mysuru-Kodagu MP Pratap Simha has opined that non-visiting of senior district officers like Deputy Commissioner (DC), District Health Officer (DHO) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Zilla Panchayat (ZP) to rural areas to take stock of the situation has been the root cause for the surge in Corona positive cases and deaths in villages….
Trend worrying, say Cardiologists; more worrisome is many people are dying due to fear of Coronavirus Mysore/Mysuru: Fearing Coronavirus spread at Hospitals, regular patients with heart problems or strokes are staying away from visiting Hospitals for their regular check-ups. This is risky, say doctors. Even the data shows that the number of severe heart attacks…
By M.T. Yogesh Kumar Mysore/Mysuru: Mysuru is going micro to muscle out COVID-19, which has swamped the city overwhelmingly during the second wave. Taking a cue from Mumbai and Bengaluru models, the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) that has already begun house-to-house survey and health check-ups, has now launched two innovative strategies to tackle the virus…
By M.B. Pavan Murthy Call Telecare facility for consultation on 0821-2420112 / 0821-2420113 Mysore/Mysuru: As Mysuru is ravaged by a crippling COVID-19 wave, members of the Indian diaspora are struggling to find ways to help. One group among them is especially distressed: Doctors. They have reached out to their native land to help patients through…
Micro-Containment Zones opened in 10 villages Outsiders, fairs and festivals are super-spreaders Mysore/Mysuru: With the COVID-19 curve in Mysuru showing no signs of flattening, the authorities have decided to tighten restrictions in a few villages, where the number of infections reported have been rather high. Ignorant of COVID-appropriate behaviour and safety protocols, villages are bearing…
Dy. CM chairs Mysuru District Officers meeting Mysore/Mysuru: Instructions have been given to conduct Rapid Antigen Test (RAT) and RT-PCR tests in all Primary Health Centres (PHCs) in the District to check the growth of COVID-19 pandemic, said Deputy Chief Minister and COVID-19 Ministerial Task Force Committee Chairman Dr. C.N. Ashwathnarayan. He was speaking to…
Mysore/Mysuru: The District Health Department is worried over high COVID-positivity rate (Test Positivity Rate) breaching 40 percent over the last 8-10 days in Mysuru District despite imposition of total lockdown. There has been increase in the cases in Mysuru and Nanjangud Taluks. Since the last two days, the positivity rate touched 55 percent, worsening the…
Mysore/Mysuru: As Mysuru battles with the second wave of the Novel Coronavirus, there are many who need information about the virus, way to combat it, the steps taken by the District and State to mitigate the impact of the contagion, real-time updates about the number of cases in Mysuru, recovered patients and also deaths. While…
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