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BBMP orders to set up COVID care centres in Bengaluru ANI | Updated: Apr 13, 2021 07:16 IST Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], April 13 (ANI): The Chief Commissioner of Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) Gaurav Gupta on Monday ordered to set up COVID care centers amid the surge in the COVID-19 cases in Bengaluru. Gupta, while holding a review meeting regarding the spread of COVID-19 in Bengaluru, said, "As COVID-19 cases are rising in the city, COVID car...

According to the police, about six months back, Mohan was sent to a rehabilitation clinic for deaddiction and had quit drinking for a few months.

Here is the story of Paarth C Singh, a freelance content producer, who tested positive and since the last two days, has been trying to track all those who he came in contact with, to warn them of his status. Singh says the civic agency, which should have been doing this, is silent. ​

Oxygen bed nightmare restarts in Bengaluru Oxygen bed nightmare restarts in Bengaluru ByKumaran PKumaran P / Updated: Apr 11, 2021, 06:00 IST A blow-by-blow account of how a patient died after being refused by two branches of same hospital It’s 2020 all over again. A 33-year-old man lost his life, despite volunteers and members of the Covid War Room coordinating his admission into two hospitals, which refused to take him in after a bed was allotted there. The man died, with doctors refusin...

Peak-A-Boom! Covid-19 cases may start coming down only after July, warn doctors There no doubt in anyone’s mind that we are in the middle of a second wave. But the next question that everyone is asking is, when will we hit the peak? Because after the peak, there is a dip. Experts are predicting that the daily increase in Covid cases will touch 6,500 by April 20. While a section of experts predict the second wave to peak at the end of April, Health Minister Dr K Sudhakar said that we need to...

In the wake of rising Covid cases, it has been decided that all private hospitals will now have to reserve 20 per cent beds for government-referred positive patients.

BBMP’s sanitiser dispensers run dry ByY Maheswara ReddyY Maheswara Reddy / Updated: Apr 6, 2021, 06:00 IST Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) marshals and health officials are empowered to ensure that movie theaters, closed market areas and malls have enough stock of sanitisers. So of course, one can be forgiven for expecting the BBMP head and zonal offices to follow all Covid Appropriate Behaviour (CAB) such as wearing of masks, physical distancing, provision of hand sanitisers and...

Permission to axe trees now in public domain Permission to axe trees now in public domain ByNaveen MenezesNaveen Menezes / Updated: Apr 6, 2021, 06:00 IST For the first time, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has started uploading permission letters issued for axing trees or removing branches to private individuals and organisations on its website. This level of transparency has come after a recent High Court order, which has been hearing a petition on illegality by the BBMP in...

Karnataka gets 15 lakh doses of Covid jab; no shortage, says K Sudhakar SECTIONS Last Updated: Apr 06, 2021, 11:08 AM IST Share Synopsis The minister’s comments came even as some private hospitals in Bengaluru turned away patients on Monday saying they had run out of stock. For instance, Apollo Hospital at Bannerghatta Road stopped the vaccination on Monday afternoon as they did not have sufficient stock. PTI Karnataka health minister K Sudhakar on Monday said the state has received 15 lakh ...

Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], April 6 (ANI): Zonal health officers in Bengaluru have been instructed to double the COVID-19 vaccination rate in the city amid the second wave of the pandemic in the country, informed Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) Chief Commissioner Gaurav Gupta on Tuesday.