Mysore/Mysuru: The Mysuru City Police is fully geared up to enforce daily night curfew from June 29 (tomorrow) and the Sunday full lockdown (from July 5) as decided and directed by the State Government. The measures will resemble the first phase of lockdown that was imposed in March-April, complete with barricading and Police patrol. This…
CM to virtually open Mysuru’s first COVID-19 private testing lab at JSS
June 28, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Mysuru’s first private COVID-19 Testing Lab set up by JSS Medical College at JSS Hospital will be inaugurated online by Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa at 10.30 am tomorrow (June 29). This advanced laboratory will add to the existing laboratories that are testing samples round the clock. At present, only the state-of-the-art Viral Research and Diagnostic…
To draw guests, hotels primp up with hygiene promises, discounts
June 28, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Hotels and hotel chains are among the worst hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. As the lockdown is lifted, the biggest challenge facing hospitality companies is how to get paranoid customers to walk in through their doors. Cash-strapped and bruised by the prolonged lockdown, many hotels in Mysuru are coming up with new campaigns to…
NCC Girl Cadets stitch masks, handover to Mysuru DC
June 28, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: With the COVID-19 pandemic continuing to harrow everyone, especially the frontline workers tasked to mitigate the crisis, in a commendable gesture worthy of emulation, NCC Girl Cadets from Mysuru had come forward with the initiative of locally stitched high quality pleated cotton face masks for District authorities. On May 13, the first lot of…
Two COVID-19-infected women deliver healthy babies
June 28, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: It was joy amidst pandemic for two women infected with COVID-19 as they gave birth to healthy babies — a boy and a girl — at the Jayalakshmipuram Maternity Hospital in city. The women, hailing from Bannur and K.R. Nagar, gave birth through normal and caesarean section. While one delivered yesterday at 11.30 pm,…
Only 150 passengers each side in Mysuru-Bengaluru train
June 28, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Even a week after the South Western Railway (SWR) introduced Mysuru-Bengaluru-Mysuru daily morning special train (on June 22 from Mysuru), following relaxation in COVID-19 lockdown curbs, the train is witnessing poor response from commuters with just about 150 passengers (each side). The train, which is similar to that of the popular Chamundi Express in…
54 containment zones declared in Mysuru
June 28, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: The Mysuru District Administration has declared over 54 containment zones in Mysuru district to curb the spread of COVID-19 virus. The containment zones are spread across Mysuru city, Taluk, Nanjangud, T. Narasipur, Hunsur and Periyapatna Taluks. The Zones have been declared based on confirmed Coronavirus positive cases. The Zones will remain out of bounds…
Mysuru ramps up health infrastructure
June 27, 2020ESI Hospital, KSOU Extension Centre at Mandakalli to be new COVID Care facilities Plans afoot for another Testing Lab at Government Ayurveda and Panchakarma Hospital MP Pratap Simha inspects newly-built Tulsidas Hospital Mysore/Mysuru: Mysuru is ramping up its COVID-19 testing and treatment facilities following rapid rise in infected persons. The need for establishing separate facilities…
13 COVID-19 positive cases in Mysuru today; total 238
June 27, 2020City medical student among those contracted virus Kodagu reports a total of 40 cases; Chamarajanagar 20 Mysore/Mysuru: Mysuru reported 13 COVID-19 positive cases today (June 27) taking the total positive cases to 238. Till yesterday, the cumulative number of patients getting discharged stood at 128. In today’s cases, five are females and the rest are…
DC asks contacts of persons infected with COVID-19 to register
June 27, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: A person residing at a house behind the Military Quarters in Hebbal has been tested positive for COVID-19 on June 23. As the person had roamed about in the locality for purchase of essentials between June 18 and 23, the District Administration has asked all those people who were in contact with the person…
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