Infrastructure, drug procurement, doctors, staff ready to handle third wave Mysore/Mysuru: The Mysore Medical College and Research Institute (MMC&RI) that functioned like Mysuru’s backbone during the first and second wave of COVID-19 pandemic is all set to face the third wave and simultaneously, the Omicron threat. As the fear of a third wave lingers around…
Karnataka reports 12,000 fresh cases; Mysuru’s positivity rate stands at 5 percent Mysore/Mysuru: Mysuru is witnessing a sharp spike in COVID-19 cases and on Sunday, Jan. 9, an additional 398 positive cases were reported. From Jan. 7 to 9, over 820 fresh cases have been reported taking the number of active cases to 1,052. Fortunately,…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday chaired a high-level meeting to assess the Covid-19 pandemic situation in the country and directed the officials that intensive containment and active surveillance should continue in clusters reporting higher cases. The PM noted the achievement that 31 percent adolescents aged 15-18 years have been administered with the…
Beneficiaries: Healthcare, frontline workers and those over 60 years of age with comorbidities Mysore/Mysuru: From tomorrow, Jan. 10, Mysuru will start administering the precautionary (booster) dose of the vaccine to the eligible population. The precautionary COVID-19 vaccine dose will be given to healthcare and frontline workers — including Police, Revenue Department, Rural Development and Panchayat…
Mysore/Mysuru: The second day of the 55-hour-long weekend curfew, saw a surge in movement of people across the city this morning as compared to yesterday, as residents ventured out of their homes for shopping of essential commodities and for essential services. The weekend curfew enforced by the Government in the wake of surging COVID cases,…
Mysore/Mysuru: Though essential commodities and services have been kept out of the weekend curfew driven by COVID pandemic, provision stores, ration shops and other shops selling essential commodities, are a disappointed lot as customers failed to turn up yesterday as expected during the curfew period. Essential commodities shops and provision shops located in Central Business…
DC visits COVID Care Centre at Mandakalli; 200 beds readied Mysore/Mysuru: Mysuru yesterday reported a single-day spike with 219 new cases of COVID-19 and two new COVID clusters. Clusters have been reported for the first time in the last one-and-a-half years after the initial one that was reported from Nanjangud. On Thursday, only 65 cases…
Mysore/Mysuru: Health Officers of Mysuru are holding a series of preparedness meetings to face the COVID third wave and at the same time tackle Omicron infections. A day after Mysuru reported a steep spike in COVID infections — 65 on Jan. 6 to 219 on Jan. 7 — the District Health Officer (DHO) Dr. K.H….
Mysore/Mysuru: The usually busy and buzzing Central Business District wore a near-deserted look this morning on the first day of the weekend curfew in the new year. Though grocery, provision, vegetables, food shops and other essential services shops were open in Shivarampet, Santhepet, D. Devaraj Urs Road, K.R. Circle etc., in the heart of the…
Bengaluru: While advocating a “duck and fight” strategy, Health Minister Dr. K. Sudhakar yesterday said the Government does not have any intentions of enforcing a lockdown despite increasing number of Covid cases. “The Government does not have any intention to clamp a lockdown. Lockdown was imposed in the State when there were no vaccines and…
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