Quarantine App, telemedicine facilities monitoring patient care to be reintroduced Bengaluru: Gearing up to handle a possible outbreak of Omicron, the State’s COVID-19 Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) met Health Minister Dr. K. Sudhakar in Bengaluru yesterday and submitted several recommendations including mandatory vaccination, screening of international passengers, compulsory RT-PCR test on arrival at the airports,…
Mysore/Mysuru: Urging the Government for payment of COVID risk allowance promised to them, hundreds of resident doctors took out a candle light march in city yesterday evening. Following the call given for the State-wide demonstration by Karnataka Association of Resident Doctors (KARD), an association of House Surgeons, Post-Graduates and Super-Speciality residents of Government Medical and…
Vaccine hesitancy among educated a matter of grave concern No strain of new Omicron detected in Mysuru; high alert at borders Mysore/Mysuru: Faced with the looming threat posed by the Omicron variant of COVID-19, the Department of Health and Family Welfare has been instructed to substantially increase the second dose coverage by the end of…
Omicron behaviour being assessed after genomic sequencing; results soon Bengaluru: Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai has dismissed fears in some quarters over any possible lockdown amid COVID-19 cases in some educational institutions including two Nursing Colleges in Mysuru and the detection of the Omicron, a variant of the virus in some parts of the world. Allaying…
Thiruvananthapuram: As Omicron causes panic across the world, about 5,000 teachers in Kerala are hesitant to take the Covid-19 vaccination on religious grounds. Kerala has over 1.60 lakh teachers and 20,000 non-teaching staff, sources said. State General Education Minister V. Sivankutty has termed it as a matter of concern. He said non-vaccination of teachers means…
Geneva: It is not yet clear whether the Omicron COVID-19 variant is more transmissible, or causes more severe disease compared to other variants including Delta, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said. WHO, on Sunday said that it’s not yet clear whether Omicron is more easily spread from person to person compared to other variants, even…
Daily testing targets increased from 60,000 to 80,000 63 students from two nursing colleges in Mysuru test positive Bengaluru/Mysuru: The Karnataka Government has decided to implement a slew of stringent precautionary measures amid rise in COVID-19 cases and concerns over new Coronavirus strain Omicron. The Government has intensified screening of international passengers at airports and…
Karnataka to strictly follow ‘Test-Track Treat-Vaccinate’ principle New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi met top officials this morning via video-conferencing to review the COVID-19 and vaccination situation in the country. Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba, P.K. Mishra, Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister, Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan and Dr. V.K. Paul, the chief of the country’s…
Mysore/Mysuru: Radisson Blu Plaza, one of the most reputed hotels in Mysuru, honoured members of their workforce for their selfless contribution during the pandemic- induced lockdown early last year at an event in the hotel recently. Select members of the hotel’s workforce team had come forward voluntarily, locked themselves inside the hotel for months and…
Mysuru reports 21 new COVID-19 positive cases, 13 discharges and 1 death today.
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