Though Bengaluru is dealing with active Covid-19 cases, an October 4 report says that less than five districts in the state have 1,000 active cases. Bidar has a recovery rate of 90% with 482 active cases, the lowest among the states. It…
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On the fourth edition of ‘Sunday Samvaad’, the Union Health Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan interacted with social media users and talked about the detailed roadmap of vaccine procurement and distribution that can be expected in the coming months in the country. The…
Karnataka state government has capped the prices of Covid-19 tests to encourage more people to get checked for the virus. The RT-PCR tests for Covid-19 in Karnataka’s private labs are cheaper than the price charged in other major tests. Currently, RT-PCR tests…
To fight with the deadly coronavirus, the presence of the PG doctors and UG interns are important. But in Mangaluru, the house surgeons and the PG docs are testing positive for the coronavirus leading to a shortage of staff and an obstruction…
Nalini Satyanarayana, a seventy-two-year-old throat cancer survivor raised her voice against the harmful effects of passive smoking and has written to the Indian as well as Karnataka state government to revise the smoking rules in India. She says that Indian lawmakers do…
In an attempt to caution people to wear a face mask during these times of pandemic, the administrators of the Jodhpur district in the state of Rajasthan have launched a campaign that calls for “No Mask, No Service” and “No Mask, No…
The Gujarat Government, on earlier Monday, decided to hail the passage of a bill named ‘Rashtriya Raksha University Bill’ in the Lower House of the Parliament. This marks a very crucial step to strengthen the wider structure of TREE- which means, Training-Research-Extension-Education…
Droplets and airborne particles can travel distances beyond six feet, and it says In a major development, the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has revised its guidelines to acknowledge that the “main way” the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) spreads is…
