Darshan Devaiah BP

On May 3, as many as 23 Covid patients died in Chamarajanagar district allegedly due to oxygen shortage.

A cricketer before he joined politics, Srinivas is the first Kannadiga to be appointed the president of the Indian Youth Congress and the second person to hold this position from South India.

The district commissioner of Chamarajanagar Dr MR Ravi has issued a statement blaming his Mysuru counterpart Rohini Sindhuri for the deaths, which he said occurred due to "enormous delay in supply" of the oxygen. Mysuru DC Rohini Sindhuri said that she neither rationed nor controlled oxygen supplies to Chamarajanagar district.

Earlier Punjab, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh had announced free vaccination for journalists.

Chaitanya Medical Centre in Yelahanka said there was an oxygen crisis on Monday due to which they had to shift all their Covid patients to various others hospitals in the city.

While the families of the patients have alleged they died because of a shortage of medical oxygen at the facility, the state government has claimed only three of the deaths occurred due to this reason.

Chamarajnagar: While the families of the patients have alleged they died because of a shortage of medical oxygen at the facility, the state government has claimed only three of the deaths occurred due to this reason.

BBMP officials took back all the stocks citing it as “new government policy” The civic body stated that private hospitals will have to procure doses directly from the manufacturer from Saturday.

According to Nagabharana, Kannada being the state language, it is mandatory to issue state government orders in it so that information reaches every person.

With rising Covid-19 deaths in the state, the government has decided to reserve 230 acres of land across Karnataka for cremations.

Karnataka minister R Ashoka said, “We are giving free medicines to people, which can control 90% cases. But some infected people switch off their mobile phones. They reach hospitals when in a critical stage, desperately looking for ICU beds.”

Surjewala also asked state Congress leaders to distribute food packages to the poor, masks, hand sanitisers to the public, and free PPE kits to doctors.

The Karnataka government has announced a 14-day mini-lockdown, which CM Yediyurappa termed as “close down”, starting Tuesday night to arrest the spread of Covid-19 in the state. He announced the decision after chairing a cabinet meeting Monday afternoon.

Karnataka Lockdown rules and guidelines: The state, especially capital city Bengaluru, is in the middle of a Covid-19 surge that is affecting health care infrastructure, with patients forced to wait for long to get oxygen, ventilators and ICU beds.

While the city civic body, Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), has accused private labs of not following protocol — from swab collection to uploading results on Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) portal — many labs in the state capital say their capacity is stressed due to the high volume of tests.

TTD executive officer KS Jawahar Reddy said that the TTD would also bring the matter to the notice of both the state and central governments and get ‘Jabali’ officially declared as the birthplace of Hanuman.

These include vitals monitoring kit that contains a digital thermometer, an oximeter for measuring oxygen levels in blood and a digital BP measuring machine.

Most of them had returned recently from Maharashtra to participate in a festival.

Last month, Karnataka Tourism Minister CP Yogeeshwara had said that heli-tourism in the state will be developed starting from Mysuru soon, along with other regions in the state, including Bengaluru, Belagavi and Kalaburagi.

Many street vendors said their business is down since March and if the government brings more curbs, it would only add to their miseries.

Yediyurappa had taken the first dose of Covid-19 vaccine last month and his second dose was due in a few days.

Karnataka is among the top mango growers in India, cultivating the crop on 1.68 lakh hectares in 16 districts.

Why are the southern states of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh engaged in a tussle over the birth place of Hanuman?

On Monday, Yediyurappa had said the state government could impose a lockdown if the necessity arises.