Tag: COVID-19

Chaiwalas asked to shut shop until further orders
COVID-19, News

Chaiwalas asked to shut shop until further orders

July 17, 2020

Mysore/Mysuru: The Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) has ordered the closure of tea stalls in Mysuru due to Coronavirus scare.  The MCC has taken this decision as many people were seen standing in front of tea stalls in violation of COVID-19 protocols. The order to this effect was issued by MCC Commissioner Gurudatta Hegde yesterday. As…

Flipped Classroom in COVID times
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Flipped Classroom in COVID times

July 17, 2020

Mysore/Mysuru: The Flipped Classroom concept offers an innovative solution to the unmet challenges of traditional class room. Using video technology students digest content at their own pace and use their time in the classroom to tackle difficult problems. It also creates practical instances to foster face to face collaboration, says Dr. N. N. Prahallada, former…

Spitting of tobacco invites penalty
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Spitting of tobacco invites penalty

July 17, 2020

Mysore/Mysuru: As spitting of tobacco and pan masala may spread the COVID-19 pandemic, the Government has banned spitting of chewable tobacco products and pan masala under Section (2) of Epidemic Diseases Act,1897. The District Tobacco Consumption Control Cell’s Surveillance Officer, in a press release, said that consumption and spitting of tobacco and pan masala in…

Rush for Free immunity-booster
Coronavirus Update, COVID-19, News

Rush for Free immunity-booster

July 16, 2020

Mysore/Mysuru: Holding prevention to be better than cure, residents are rushing to Government Ayurveda College and Hospital premises on Sayyaji Rao Road (near K.R. Hospital) for doses of free immunity-boosting medicines.  Mysuru has seen a drastic jump in the number of COVID-19 cases in the past few days. Though these medicines were being given free…

Rs. 5,000 for plasma donors
COVID-19, News

Rs. 5,000 for plasma donors

July 16, 2020

Bengaluru: To encourage plasma donation from COVID-19-cured patients,  the State Government has decided to pay Rs. 5,000 incentive to the donors. Karnataka Medical Education Minister Dr. K. Sudhakar, addressing newsmen yesterday, informed that an incentive of Rs. 5,000 would be given to those who had recovered from the COVID-19 disease and donated their plasma. “Please…

DC calls for effective management of Containment Zones, Home Isolations
COVID-19, News

DC calls for effective management of Containment Zones, Home Isolations

July 16, 2020

Mysore/Mysuru: As the Coronavirus pandemic is spreading, creation of Containment Zones and careful and effective management of these zones can help limit the transmission till the time scientists, pharmaceuticals companies develop COVID-19 vaccine. These zones help reduce people-to-people contact and break the chain of virus spread — the motive behind Government-announced lockdowns. These zones serve…

Three COVID Care Centres to come up at NR Constituency
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Three COVID Care Centres to come up at NR Constituency

July 16, 2020

Mysore/Mysuru: Even as the District Administration is looking at various options to control COVID-19 spread including imposition of mini-lockdown in some areas of Narasimharaja (NR) Constituency from where many Coronavirus positive cases are reported on a daily basis, three COVID Care Centres (CCCs) are being readied in the Constituency to help fight the deadly pandemic….

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