Новости за 03.08.2021

When other southern districts are witnessing a surge in the Covid-19 positive cases, Mysuru’s positivity rate is hovering below 1%. The district administration’s strategy to test an average of 10,000 people per day is helping it now. Among the tests conducted 95% are RT-PCR.

The district taskforce on mining has cancelled 11 stone mining leases atop Babybetta for not complying with the requisite conditions including submitting no objection certificates from the environment department.

Even as experts are warning against letting one’s guard down on the Covid front with a third wave just around the corner, people seem to be ignoring Covid protocol.

The Hubballi-Dharwad bypasss from Narendra to Gabbur, where 11 people were killed in a road crash in January, is again in the news for the wrong reasons.

The ghazipur administration in UP on Tuesday initiated the process of attaching a house of jailed mafia don and MLA Mukhtar Ansari's wife, Afsha Ansari, and brother-in-law, Sharjil, worth Rs 2.18 crore in Saiyyedbada area of Ghazipur district.

According to the police, the deceased has been identified as Varshita, who was studying in an engineering college at Manipal in Udupi. She was a resident of Mangaluru.

With the timely intervention and help from Hubballi-Dharwad police commissioner Labhuram, Gokul road police rescued a six-year-old girl from Bengaluru after she was kidnapped in Hubballi on Saturday.

Fresh cases dipped after four days of hike on Monday, when Tamil Nadu reported1,957 cases compared to 1,990 on Sunday, and 1,986 on Saturday. ​​ Yet at least 14 districts, including Chennai, reported an increase in new cases compared to Sunday. At the end of the day there were 20,385 people still under treatment for the viral infection.

Interstate restrictions on Karnataka-Kerala border check posts in Dakshina Kannada district will continue till the test positivity rate of Covid-19 in the neighbouring state reduces considerably, said Karnataka ADGP (law & order) CH Pratap Reddy.

Union minister of state for home affairs Nityanand Rai gave a reply to this effect to MPs T R Paarivendhar and S Ramalingam in Lok Sabha. “Presently no such proposal is under consideration,” the minister said.

Lack of proper management at vaccination centres in the districts has led to chaos and harassment of beneficiaries in the busy sowing season when people have had to queue up since morning to get their names registered. The health department, however, maintains that there are enough stocks and supply of the doses is regular.

The Assam government is ready to open schools from September 1 provided there is no fresh spike in Covid cases, chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Monday.

The Indian Railways has cancelled several trains to break the chain of Covid infection. It is yet to resume local passenger and intercity trains in Odisha. As the Covid cases are coming down in the state, people urge the Railways to run these trains for the convenience of rail users.

Karnataka’s own vaccine registration app, titled Co-Win Kar, is finally available for download on Google Play Store. Authorities are experimenting with the app on a pilot basis in Mysuru city limits and it has seen more than 100 downloads so far. Use of the app will be extended across the state later.

At the peak of the second wave of Covid-19 infections in April and May, several patients who were in dire need of a ventilator bed, died without getting one.

Sometimes brawn is not the answer. Assam’s two civil servants, both women, are using their strong presence to keep a hostile territory on the Assam-Mizoram border under control. Together with Lovlina Borgohain, who is doing her national duty in the boxing ring in Tokyo, these two ladies on the border in Cachar district are the toast of the state.

Moving forward from six days of hostile face-off on the border, Assam and Mizoram will hold talks to resolve the decades old boundary dispute in Aizawl on August 5.

Following the footsteps of residents’ bodies that set up isolation units for Covid patients where they could get primary care, the Noida Federation of Apartment Owners’ Associations (NOFAA) has now decided to have permanent clinics inside residential societies.