Mysore/Mysuru: The Inner Wheel Club of Mysore District 318 donated 50 bed sheets, 50 blankets and two electric kettles, worth Rs. 11,800, to the COVID Care Centre (CCC) set up by the Mysuru City Corporation’s (MCC) to treat COVID-infected Pourakarmikas. The materials were handed over to MCC Commissioner Gurudatta Hegde at Zilla Panchayat premises yesterday…
Forest Department writes to State Government seeking clarity on bringing elephants to Mysuru Mysore/Mysuru: With 2020 Dasara destined to be a low-key affair owing to COVID-19 pandemic, the Forest Department has written to the State Government seeking clarity on identifying and bringing elephants from the forests for the celebrations. Usually, the process of selecting elephants…
N.S. Road MCC Zone-6 Office sealed Mysore/Mysuru: The MCC Zone-6 Office on Narayana Shastri Road (N.S. Road) has been sealed down till Sunday after an Engineer and a Revenue Inspector attached to the Zonal Office tested positive for COVID-19. Soon after learning that the duo were found COVID-19 positive on Wednesday, the authorities sealed down…
Mysore/Mysuru: Asha Kirana Charitable Trust, Mysuru, extended its services to COVID care by inaugurating a 60-bed facility exclusively for treating people infected with COVID-19 at Asha Kirana Hospital on Hebbal Ring Road here today. This initiative of COVID care will be managed and operated by MAHAN, an association formed by city’s top private health care…
Mandya reports 134 new cases, Kodagu sees 51 and Chamarajanagar district reports 95 new cases Mysore/Mysuru: Mysuru district has reported 361 new COVID positive cases yesterday bringing the total number of positives in the district to 6,476, according to the media bulletin received last evening. A total of 2,494 patients have been discharged so far…
Mysore/Mysuru: Death certificate data is used to monitor local, regional, and national mortality trends to improve public health and public safety. Accurate death certification related to Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is vital to understand the extent and progression of the pandemic. However, the death certificates issued by the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) do not mention…
Mysore/Mysuru: The District Administration has taken the onus of performing the last rites (funeral) of people dying due to COVID-19. Protocols and guidelines laid down by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) are strictly followed while cremating or burying the dead. The last rites of patients are being conducted at Vijayanagar High-tech crematorium, Tipu…
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…
Mysore/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…
Mysore/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….
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