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Dakshina Kannada district recorded 517 fresh cases of Covid-19 on Saturday, which is the highest single-day spike ever, since the first case was detected on March 22, last year.

The state government on Saturday deployed firemen at different dedicated Covid hospitals across the state to check any fire incident in the hospitals. Government took this decision in view of fire incidents that happened in Covid hospitals in other states.

Big format shops, shopping complex and malls would be not permitted.

A fire broke out at a speciality chemicals manufacturing unit within Karnataka's Mangalore Special Economic Zone (MSEZ) at Bajpe on Saturday afternoon, but there were no casualties, police said.

In the wake of a sharp increase in demand for oxygen for the Covid-19 patients in the hospitals across Ludhiana district in Punjab, deputy commissioner Varinder Kumar Sharma on Saturday set up an oxygen audit committee.

Possibly the largest troop of the vulnerable Rhesus Monkey species, the wild stump-tailed Macaca arctoides, has been spotted at the Hollongapar Gibbon Sanctuary in Jorhat, Assam, said a study conducted by 13 researchers, published in a science journal on Friday. The study team found a total of 194 individuals in the 20.98 sqkm sanctuary.

The government on Wednesday made Covid-19 tests mandatory for people entering the state, but Assam remains vulnerable as two points along the border with West Bengal, Srirampur and Chagolia-Boxirhat motor vehicles check gates are open for the entry of truck drivers and their associates without any compulsory Covid-19 screening.

Police arrested two persons for allegedly murdering and setting a minor Karbi girl ablaze in Raha town of Nagaon in Assam.

A sharp rise in Covid-19 positive cases in Assam, just a week ahead of counting day on May 2 for the recently concluded state assembly election, has posed a huge challenge for the state election commission.

Doctors in Guwahati have suggested different home remedies to fight Covid-19, which is causing anxiety and depression among people.

Just two days ago, 40-year-old Somitra Srivastava had been running from one hospital to another to arrange a bed for his 75-year-old Covid-positive father whose condition was deteriorating by the minute. From Medanta to Columbia Asia, he knocked on the doors of all the big hospitals in the city only to be turned back.

The northeast’s biggest quarantine centre, which was set up on the premises of an athletic stadium here one year back when the first wave of Covid-19 hit the state and dismantled seven months later after improvement in the situation, has been re-built to serve as a Covid care centre in the ongoing second wave.

As cases rise exponentially, Odisha Police have decided to start a fresh plasma donation drive and have requested its Covid-cured personnel to come to the rescue of critical patients.

Notorious gangster Sk Hyder, who had tested positive for Covid-19, and is currently lodged in the Choudwar Jail near here sought judicial intervention on Friday for proper treatment in view of his purportedly deteriorating health condition. He filed a petition in the court of the Judicial Magistrate First Class (City), Cuttack, through advocate Satya Ranjan Mulia. Hyder was brought back to Odisha from Telangana on April 16, five days after he escaped from the SCB Medical College Hospital. On that day... Читать дальше...

The state added 13,776 new Covid-19 cases pushing the active cases close to nearly 1 lakh on Friday, when public health authorities added 78 deaths and discharged 8,078 people. There were 95,048 people seeking treatment for the viral infection, as the case tally touched 10.51 lakh (10,51,487) and cumulative death toll touched 13,395.

The coronavirus pandemic has caused a sharp and steady rise in child marriages in Mysuru. Before the onset of the pandemic, the state had secured notable development in curbing child marriage, but growing concerns over unemployment, poverty and closure of schools due to the pandemic have reportedly led to a surge in child marriages.

Against the backdrop of distressing reports of shortage of oxygen and beds across the state, which is reeling under an alarming surge in new Covid-19 cases, the Ballari district administration has constituted a dedicated team to streamline the supply and distribution of oxygen. The team has also been tasked with the responsibility of ensuring that all Covid-19 patients are provided beds.

Pavitra M, a resident of Kolipalya in Chamarajanagar, has completed her BA and DEd. Two years ago, before the outbreak of Covid-19, she was serving as a guest teacher in a local school.

Union petroleum minister Dharmendra Pradhan has asked minister of coal and mines Pralhad Joshi to declare Nehru Satabdi Central Hospital (NSCH) of MCL at Talcher as Covid hospital with ICU facilities and install 100 ventilators there.

After stepping up vigil at airports, railway stations and interstate border checkpoints, the state government has now mounted surveillance on the coastline to prevent influx of people from other states through the sea route. The government has asked the 18 marine police stations in the state to intensify patrolling and has formed the Sagar Rakshyak Dal, comprising volunteers of local communities, to keep tabs on outsiders.