DC attributes rise in number of positive cases to rapid testing at Private Hospitals also Mysore/Mysuru: With the District witnessing an exponential rise in COVID-19 positive cases, Deputy Commissioner Abhiram G. Sankar said that the designated COVID-19 Hospital on KRS Road and the ESI Hospital, also on KRS Road, will have a total of 70…
Chamaraja MLA launches COVID Rapid Antigen Testing Centre
July 28, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: As an additional measure to prevent the spread of Coronavirus and to nip it in the bud itself, Chamaraja Constituency MLA L. Nagendra launched COVID Rapid Antigen Testing Centre at Kailaspuram Government School on Pulikeshi Road here this morning. Since on-the-spot tests are conducted, it is easy for the Health Department staff to trace…
Film theatres in the State likely to open from Aug. 1
July 28, 2020State awaiting Centre’s green signal Bengaluru: The Karnataka entertainment industry (theatres and multiplexes) is hoping to return to business from Aug. 1 and the State is waiting for the green signal by the Centre. The Government is set to frame fresh guidelines for Unlock 3.0 which will come into force from Aug. 1 as the…
Covaxin: First part of Phase-1 results ‘encouraging’, says Rohtak PGIMS
July 28, 2020New Delhi: While Phase-1 human trials of Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin, India’s first indigenous COVID-19 vaccine candidate, are on at most of the 12 sites selected by Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) across the country, the Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (PGIMS), Rohtak, has claimed “encouraging” results from first part of tests. Earlier this week,…
Total active COVID cases cross 2,000 in Mysuru on July 28
July 28, 2020296 fresh COVID cases reported in Mysuru, Mandya sees 56 new cases, Kodagu reports 10 and Chamarajanagar reports 16 fresh cases Mysore/Mysuru: Mysuru district has reported 296 fresh COVID positive cases yesterday bringing the total positive cases to 3,163. This is for the third time that the district crossed 200 positive cases in a day…
Keeping spirits high in trying times: KSOU Academic Bhavan, a Model COVID Care Centre
July 28, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: For Covid patients, fighting anxiety and restlessness during their stay in any quarantine centre is a big challenge, but here is a centre where patients can enjoy fresh air and sunlight together with a full calendar of activities during their stay in the treatment centre. A full-fledged COVID Care Centre (CCC) has been established…
Rush at Devaraja Flower Market!
July 28, 2020Varamahalakshmi festival crowd prompts MCC to shift market to J.K. Grounds for 3 days Mysore/Mysuru: Anticipating heavy rush of festival shoppers amid the surging COVID cases of late in Mysuru city and district, the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC), which is hell bent on flattening the rising positive cases, today decided to temporarily shift the Flower…
No dearth of Rapid Antigen Test kits in District: DC
July 28, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Maintaining that there is no dearth of Rapid Antigen Kits in the District, Deputy Commissioner (DC) Abhiram G. Sankar said that the State Government has supplied 2,300 kits in the first lot and 10,000 in the next to the district. Speaking to press persons at ZP Hall here yesterday, the DC said that with…
Another COVID Care Centre to come up in NR Constituency
July 28, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Congress MLA Tanveer Sait, who heads the NR Constituency COVID-19 Task Force, said that another Covid Care Centre(CCC) will be coming up in the Constituency soon. In his first Task Force meeting held at his residence in Udayagiri on Saturday, Tanveer Sait directed the officials to get prepared for setting up the third centre…
Private factory employee, MCC staffer die of COVID in Mysuru
July 28, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: An employee of a private factory and a staff of Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) have died of COVID in city. While the private factory employee passed away at the District COVID Hospital on Saturday, the MCC staffer has breathed his last yesterday morning at the COVID Care in a private hospital here. The 53-year-old…
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