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Updated: April 28, 2021 15:19 IST DG &IGP Praveen Sood clarifies that police are not issuing any passes during the lockdown and asked people not to believe messages being circulated on social media. Share Article AAA Police personnel erect barricades on important roads of Mangaluru to enforce the fortnight lockdown after 10 a.m. on Wednesday.   | Photo Credit: H. S. Manjunath DG &IGP Praveen Sood clarifies that police are not issuing any passes during the lockdown and asked people not to beli...

BU code red: Lab and hospital nexus causing hold-up? BU code red: Lab and hospital nexus causing hold-up? BySridhar VivanSridhar Vivan / Updated: Apr 27, 2021, 06:00 IST Citizens must insist on getting SRF ID to ensure labs, swab collectors follow norms Many covid patients are unable to get admitted in private hospitals for want of Bengaluru Urban (BU) numbers, that tracks the patients and is a must for hospital admission. However, now officials say that a nexus between labs and hospitals mig...

‘Provide food in Indira Canteens free of cost’ ByNaveen MenezesNaveen Menezes / Updated: Apr 27, 2021, 06:00 IST Picture for representational purpose only Citizens make a plea to the state govt to help feed all the needy who will suffer during lockdown As citizens prepare for a 14-day lockdown that begins Tuesday night onwards, the civil society wants the state government to keep all branches of Indira Canteens open and provide food to the needy for free. They also want the government to ...

(This story originally appeared in on Apr 27, 2021)It was hailed as the emerging global hub for healthcare innovations and projected as the best destination for medical tourism. But the stark reality is that Bengaluru’s healthcare system is currently crumbling in the Covid-19 second wave. At least 500-600 persons search desperately for ICU beds every day, furnaces in crematoria are on the brink of melting, doctors and data operators are exhausted and people have been reduced to psychologic...

10% beds in Covid Care Centres to have O2 facility Bangalore Mirror Bureau / Updated: Apr 26, 2021, 06:11 IST Covid Care Centres patients running from one hospital to another in search of beds with oxygen facility, the State government has directed the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) to ensure oxygen facility is available in 10 per cent of the beds provided in the Covid Care Centres ( CCC). Currently, all the eight zones in the City have such centres in addition to the two similar fa...

Spectre of death: Bengaluru records 77 deaths; mass cremations begin Spectre of death: Bengaluru records 77 deaths; mass cremations begin ByPragna L KrupaPragna L Krupa / Updated: Apr 26, 2021, 08:07 IST On a day when Bengaluru opened a large four-acre plot for open cremations and burials, the city for the first time recorded 20,773 cases and 77 deaths It was a day when Bengaluru sheltered at home, waiting for a miracle. But it was like locking the stable after the horse had bolted. It was als...

Workers load empty oxygen cylinders at a hospital in Bengaluru. Demand has shot up in the past couple of weeks BENGALURU: A hospital in Bengaluru with over 30 Covid patients averted a major disaster when it refilled its medical oxygen tanks in the nick of time with help from the local MP, BBMP officials and oxygen suppliers. India’s first anti-ageing facility, GVG Invivo Hospital in JP Nagar, was converted into a Covid hospital overnight last year. After the second wave hit, the hospital rep...

If only help was a call away If only help was a call away ByNaveen MenezesNaveen Menezes / Updated: Apr 24, 2021, 06:00 IST patients. Doing it diligently will help prevent thousands running between hospitals About 94 per cent of the people who test covid positive in Bengaluru have opted for home isolation. Most of them do not have symptoms. If Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike’s (BBMPs) tele-counselling programme was working efficiently, these patients would not be rushing to hospitals in...

Will arrange 11K beds soon: BBMP chief Based on the suggestions of experts and advisory committee, the State Government will take further decisions, he added. Share Via Email   |  A+A A- A health worker collect swab samples at the Mysuru Road Satellite Bus Terminal in Bengaluru on Friday | Vinod kumar T By Express News Service BENGALURU: To ensure that every needy person gets proper medical attention, Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) Chief Commissioner Gaurav Gupta on Friday s...

The waiting game . Tightly packed testing centres at PHCs are not only a ticking time bomb but also the start of endless queues if one contracts the coronavirus Time, which is of the essence during a health emergency like covid, seems to be marching ahead and not keeping pace with you, in this hour of crisis. As the clock ticks away, it feels like you stuck in quicksand and waiting, waiting, waiting for things to happen. If covid was not enough of a cruel test, time is an even harsher teacher....