The home test should be conducted according to an app that can be downloaded from the Google Play and Apple store New Delhi: Rapid Antigen Kits to conduct COVID test at home got a green signal on Wednesday and the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) — the nodal body in the fight against the…
Russian vaccine ‘Sputnik-V’ to be ‘Made in Karnataka’
May 20, 2021Bengaluru: The world’s first COVID vaccine, Sputnik-V invented by Russia will be manufactured in Karnataka, said Health and Medical Education Minister Dr. K. Sudhakar. Speaking to media here yesterday, he said talks were going on in this regard at the highest level. Once talks are finalised, the Sputnik-V vaccine will be manufactured in the State. On…
MMC&RI to recruit doctors and nursing staff
May 20, 2021Direct interview on May 24 Mysore/Mysuru: The Mysore Medical College and Research Institute (MMC&RI) will be recruiting doctors and nursing staff for COVID treatment at the new Super Speciality Hospital, Trauma Care Centre, PKTB and ED Hospitals through a direct interview to take place on May 24. The appointments will be purely on contract basis…
New guidelines on vaccinating COVID-recovered patients released
May 20, 2021New Delhi: The Union Health Ministry has accepted new recommendations of The National Expert Group on Vaccine Administration for COVID-19 (NEGVAC) on administering vaccine for COVID-infected people. Accordingly, COVID-19 vaccination is to be deferred by three months after recovery from the illness. If infected with COVID after 1st dose, 2nd dose to be deferred by…
DST develops new RT-PCR kit to detect COVID-19 new strains
May 20, 2021New Delhi: The Department of Science & Technology (DST) institute has developed a new multiplex RT-PCR kit with novel gene targeted to facilitate detection across various mutant strains of COVID-19. This unique RT-PCR kit will be a significant weapon in our fight against COVID-19 by a facile detection of SARS-CoV-2 mutations, said Prof. Ashutosh Sharma, Secretary,…
Teacher teams formed to clear doubts of SSLC students
May 20, 2021Subject-wise teachers just a call away Mysore/Mysuru: With schools shut down due to COVID-19 crisis, the Department of Public Instruction has formed subject-wise teams of resource persons involving teachers from Government, aided and unaided schools, for helping SSLC students clear their doubts regarding lessons. Following postponement of SSLC exams, the teachers are reaching out to…
State declares Black Fungus as a notifiable disease
May 20, 2021MCC Pourakarmika succumbs; two patients from Chamarajanagar shifted to Mysuru Government yet to decide on who will bear the cost of treatment in Private Hospitals Mysore/Mysuru: The number of mucormycosis or Black Fungus cases are mounting across the State, with districts reporting a rush of post-COVID fungal infections in the past few days. Mysuru has…
COVID: 16 personnel of Forest Department die in as many days
May 20, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: Even as Forest personnel are working round the clock to save our depleting forests, the Department has reported the death of its 16 personnel in as many days due to deadly COVID-19 pandemic. The second wave of attack, which is more fatal than the outbreak last year, has claimed the lives of 16 Forest…
MP inspects Super-Speciality Hospital
May 20, 2021Mysuru-Kodagu MP Pratap Simha inspecting the bed and oxygen facilities at the newly established Super Speciality Hospital on KRS road this morning.
Shielding against the deadly virus
May 20, 2021Citizens aged above 45 years seen waiting to take their first dose of vaccine at Urban Primary Health Centre, Old Agrahara, Mysuru, this morning. Picture above shows Dr. Mahalakshmi of the Health Centre overseeing the vaccination drive.















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