Thu, 06 May 2021 11:56:24
Former Karnataka Chief Minister and JDS leader HD Kumaraswamy on Wednesday criticized the BJP-led state government for diverting people's attention from the Chamarajanagar hospital incident in which reportedly 24 people had died due to a shortage of oxygen wherein the Bengaluru police arrested a social worker and her nephew over an alleged irregularity in the allotment of COVID beds.
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Thu, 06 May 2021 11:53:52
To augment the supply of medical oxygen to Karnataka, the Union government has allocated four tankers of 20 MT capacity each to the State, Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa said on Wednesday.
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Thu, 06 May 2021 11:51:53
Karnataka on Wednesday crossed the one crore mark in inoculation of COVID-19 vaccines, Health Minister K Sudhakar said.
'Karnataka crossed 1 crore inoculations of Covid-19 vaccine today. K'taka has received 1,05,49,970 doses from Centre & State Govt has procured 3 lakh doses,' the Minister tweeted.
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Thu, 06 May 2021 11:48:39
The Congress in Karnataka on Wednesday flayed the BJP for 'communalising' the hospital bed scam, pertaining to 'blocking' the beds in fake names for COVID-19 patients on payment of exorbitant amounts.
BJP MP Tejasvi Surya had on Tuesday alleged that hospitals in the city 'blocked' at least 4,065 beds in fake names to make a killing at a time when COVID-19 cases were rising in the country and Ka
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Thu, 06 May 2021 11:46:27
Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd (MRPL) will be establishing five oxygen generation plants in Dakshina Kannada and in other parts of Karnataka to support the State Government’s fight against the second wave of the Covid pandemic.
According to a press release here, the company will be setting up a 930 litres per minute plant at Government Wenlock Hospital in Mangaluru. Shell-MRPL Aviati
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Thu, 06 May 2021 11:43:28
Davangere A journalist, who had suspected COVID infection, allegedly took his life by jumping before a running train at Amaravati in Honnali on Wednesday, police said.
Paramesh,46, was working for a Kannada daily, they said.
For the past few days he was suffering from fever, cold and cough, police added.
He leaves his wife and two children.
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Thu, 06 May 2021 11:41:27
The UK strain of coronavirus is currently dominating parts of north India while the double mutant variant is found mostly in Maharashtra, Karnataka and Gujarat, Director of the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Sujeet Singh said on Wednesday.
He, however, added that the B1.1.7 lineage of SARS CoV-2 (UK variant) is declining in proportion across the country in the last month and a half.
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Thu, 06 May 2021 11:37:55
Karnataka on Wednesday reported the single largest day spike in both COVID-19 cases and fatalities since the start of the pandemic, with 50,112 infections and 346 deaths.
This took the total caseload to nearly 17.5 lakh and the fatalities to 16,884.
The previous highest numbers were on May 1 when the state logged 48,296 cases and 292 deaths, the health department said.
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Wed, 05 May 2021 21:00:26
India on Wednesday received 54 tonnes of oxygen from Bahrain as part of Operation Samudra Setu-II launched by Indian Navy to transport oxygen and associated medical supplies from friendly foreign nations.
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