Bengaluru: The Karnataka High Court has directed the State Government to clarify on the inconsistency in the issuance of death certificates during COVID-19. The Bench quoted provisions under the Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969, and directed the Government not to mention COVID-19 unnecessarily in the death certificates, when the cause of death is…
MLA writes letter to CM seeking immediate medical care for critically ill COVID-19 patients
August 7, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Claiming that many critical COVID-19 patients have died due to lack of appropriate medical care, Congress MLA from N.R. Constituency Tanveer Sait has urged the State Government to take necessary measures for providing immediate medical care for COVID-19 patients. In a letter written to the Chief Minister on Aug.5, Sait said that the number…
CFTRI to set up COVID Testing Laboratory
August 6, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: To support the Mysuru District Administration in its fight against Coronavirus, city-based Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI) will set up an advanced COVID Testing Laboratory to scale up testing process. Mysuru Deputy Commissioner Abhiram G. Sankar told Star of Mysore that up to 300 samples per day can be tested in this lab….
Rapid Antigen Testing Teams now test people near their doorstep
August 6, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: With the number of COVID-19 positive cases rising exponentially by the day in the district, Rapid Antigen Testing (RAT) teams have started visiting hotspot areas of the city carrying out tests on the people near their doorstep. There are 8 RAT teams in the city and 10 in each taluk of the district. Rapid…
Free oxygen for COVID patients with respiratory problems
August 6, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: United Vision Welfare and Charitable Trust has come forward to supply free oxygen to COVID patients with severe respiratory infection. The free service was inaugurated by District Vector-Borne Diseases Control Officer Dr. Chidambara by watering a sapling at a simple function organised at MESCO ITI College premises in Subashnagar yesterday. Speaking on the occasion,…
Mysuru district reports 11 COVID deaths, 261 new cases on Aug. 5
August 6, 2020Mandya reports 123 new COVID positive cases, Kodagu sees 13 and Chamarajanagar reports 38 new cases Mysore/Mysuru: Mysuru district yesterday reported 261 new COVID positive cases bringing the total number of positives in the district to 6,115, according to the media bulletin received last evening. As many as 2,342 patients have been discharged so far…
COVID-19: Provident Fund Office closed for public
August 6, 2020Drop Box kept at office gate for people to drop applications; public asked to opt for online transactions Mysore/Mysuru: The Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO), Regional Office at Gayathripuram in city has been closed to public due to COVID-19 pandemic. As hundreds of people visit the office daily, notices have been pasted outside the gate…
Canara Bank donates Rs. 5 lakh for COVID care
August 6, 2020Canara Bank, Mysuru, Regional Office-I Head I.P. Mithanthaya handed over a cheque for Rs. 5 lakh to Zilla Panchayat Chief Executive Officer Prashanth Kumar Mishra towards treatment of COVID patients at Mysuru District Covid Hospital under the Bank’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programme. T.E. Nagappa, Assistant General Manager, Lead Bank, A.V. Yashavanth, Divisional Manager, Canara…
India’s first solar-powered Telemedicine Van inaugurated by Mysuru DC
August 5, 2020This Telemedicine Unit is sponsored by Bank Note Paper Mill, Mysuru under its CSR Initiative at a cost of Rs. 1.25 crore Mysore/Mysuru: India’s first solar-powered Telemedicine Van was inaugurated by Mysuru Deputy Commissioner Abhiram G. Sankar at an event that took place at Amritakripa Hospital in Roopanagar here on Aug. 3. This Telemedicine Unit…
Mysuru district reports 662 new COVID cases, nine deaths on Aug. 4
August 5, 2020Mandya sees 126 new cases, Kodagu reports 31 and Chamarajanagar district sees 57 new COVID positive cases Mysore/Mysuru: There seems to be an explosion of COVID-19 infections in Mysuru district as 662 new COVID positive were reported yesterday, according to the media bulletin received last evening. Meanwhile, Mysuru DC Abhiram G. Sankar has clarified that…
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