It is on the shoulders of these frontline workers — or call them saviours — that the bulk of the burden of fighting this pandemic falls. Doctors put themselves in harm’s way to help their patients and in this trying times public confidence on doctors has increased manifold. The sacrifice that they are making for the safety and welfare
** Mysore University Develops New Kit For Rapid COVID Testing
In what could be a major breakthrough in advanced COVID testing, scientists of University of Mysore (UoM) have come up with a new COVID detection kit with an accuracy rate as high as above 90 percent.
Announcing this at a press meet at Vijnana Bhavan in Manasagangothri here this morning, Prof. K.S. Rangappa, Distinguished Professor and former Vice-Chancellor of UoM, who heads the UoM team, said that the Varsity in association with Hyderabad-based Lorven Biologics Pvt. Ltd., has developed a new rapid COVID-19 detection kit.
** ‘Not just numbers’: Campaign vows to document every Covid death
Citizen activists came together on Sunday to remember and document the experiences of families and individuals who lost their loved ones to the pandemic.
** Karnataka’s first oxygen converter plant to come up in Virajpet Government Hospital
Kodagu has become the first district in Karnataka to be sanctioned an oxygen converter plant. The plant is currently being installed at Virajpet Government Hospital. An oxygen converter generates oxygen from natural air.
** Bantwal: District’s first oxygen generation plant at Vamadapadavu inaugurated
The first ever oxygen generation unit in Dakshina Kannada district was dedicated to the world in the premises of the community health centre, Vamadapadavu in the taluk on Saturday June 5.
Dakshina Kannada district in-charge minister, Kota Srinivas Poojary, speaking to the media persons after inaugurating the unit, said that this happens to be the first ever oxygen unit to have been set up to meet oxygen shortage arising out of coronavirus in the district and this unit is meant to handle the situation.
** Bangalore University bio-park produced oxygen worth Rs 16k crore: Report
The Bio-Park has been recognised as a significant oxygen bank, while the value of net oxygen produced by more than six lakh trees on the Jnana Bharathi campus is estimated at Rs 16,725 crore.
** Narayana Health, GiveIndia launch free vaccination drive
Aim is to ensure free and faster access to vaccines for underprivileged citizens
Healthcare chain Narayana Health, in association with GiveIndia, launched a free COVID-19 vaccination drive here on Saturday.
Beginning with inoculating 2,000 people in its first phase, it will be expanded to a wider population of migrant labourers, underprivileged and underserved sections of the society across the country, it was announced.
** Mangaluru singer Frizzell D’Souza’s latest single ‘Foolish Once Again’, a love ballad
Frizzell’s third single has over 22,000 views on YouTube and about 45,000 streams on Spotify
Frizzell D’Souza straddles the worlds of architecture and music. She has been studying the former for the last four years and practising the latter since she was in third grade. She finds a similarity between the two. “It is the process,” she says, “When we work on a design in architecture, we start with a concept. We do a lot of redos and keep going back and forth with it until we get it right. That is a parallel I find in music.”
** Lunar Exports donates medical kits in Mysuru
As part of the CII Mysuru Covid initiative, Bastian Joseph, managing director of Lunar Exports (Walkmate), handed over 4,000 medical kits, worth Rs 10 lakh, for the home isolation Covid patients in Mysuru to Shilpa Nag, commissioner, Mysuru City Corporation, last week
** Add Engg signs MoU with UAE firm
Add Engineering Gmbh, the parent company of ADD Engineering (India) Private Limited, has signed an MoU with the UAE-based defence sector EDGE Group PUSC to share crucial technology to enhance production and improve efficiency of maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) in the defence aviation sector.
The agreement, which will be in effect for two years, was signed by Norbert Kreller, Verner Greksa, Alexander Locktev and Girish Linganna for ADD Engg, while Mohammed Al Rasheed and others signed it on behalf of EDGE.EDGE is a private firm based in Abu Dhabi, and operates in investment services, aerospace and defence sector.