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Karnataka Covid lockdown news live: Bengaluru sees highest ever single-day deaths
Karnataka posted the highest daily Covid-19 numbers in the country on Monday. Karnataka reported 39,305 new cases and record 596 deaths in the past 24 hours even as the day’s national case count dropp...Read More
Karur MP raises funds for oxygen concentrators
Karur Lok Sabha member S Jothimani has launched a fund-raising campaign to procure oxygen concentrators aimed at treating less critial Covid-19 patients in need of oxygen support. This will also help in ensuring efficient use of liquid medical oxygen in government hospitals to treat critical patients. She has asked her team to procure 100 oxygen concentrators for government hospitals in six assembly segments in Karur, Trichy, Pudukottai and Dindigul district. “We have decided to procure oxygen concentrators as a precautionary measure to ease the demand for oxygen cylinders,” she said. She added that the oxygen requirement has shot up in hospitals. For instance, Karur medical college hospital has 10,000 KL capacity of liquid oxygen but it lasts just three days. The refilling takes more than 4-5 days.
Central crime branch arrested two people and seized 8 Remdesivir vials being sold at an exorbitant price. One of the accused is a staff nurse at a hospital while the other is an ambulance driver.
Sandeep Patil, joint CP (crime), Bengaluru
Bengaluru sees highest ever single-day deaths
Bengaluru accounted for 374 of Karnataka’s deaths, the highest ever for the city. Bengaluru’s 374 deaths was higher than its previous highest toll of 346 deaths recorded on May 7. The city’s Monday death toll is second only to Delhi which has seen over 400 deaths in a day a few times. Bengaluru has now seen 8,431 Covid deaths till date.
Oxygen tragedy averted in Mysuru
Hospitals continued to battle a shortage in oxygen with a private hospital in Mysuru narrowly averting a Chamarajanagar-like tragedy. Read more
Doctors' ethical dilemma: Save the young or seniors?
With an increasing demand for ICU beds and ventilators, clinicians are facing an ethical dilemma over allotment of beds: Young breadwinners or senior citizens? The focus is certainly more on saving the youngsters, multiple hospital authorities told TOI on the condition of anonymity. Read more
Bengaluru: Patient waits on pavement outside hospital for 48 hours
A critically ill Covid-positive woman on oxygen support was forced to wait on the pavement outside Yelahanka General Hospital for over 48 hours even as her son frantically tried to find her a bed inside the overcrowded facility. Read more
Karnataka: After backlash, cops let people use vehicles to buy essentials
Following public outcry and online backlash over Karnataka government's decision to restrict movement of private vehicles from 6am to 10am during the 14-day lockdown that came into force on Monday, state director general and inspector general of police Praveen Sood clarified in the evening that people wishing to buy daily essentials and food products can move around in their vehicles. Read more