While COVID cases have been steadily declining in Bengaluru in the past few months, it’s starting to rise again. Does this mean the city will see a second wave?
The technical advisory committee had initially recommended night curfew after Christmas, but fear of the new strain of virus prompted immediate action.
Though COVID is under control in Karnataka for now, a second wave is expected in January-February. Here are the measures the state’s Technical Advisory Committee has suggested to the government, to contain it.
One died, due to the callousness of a govt hospital. One survived, thanks to a few committed government health officials. Did COVID make the difference?
Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa has backtracked on his decision to ban firecrackers this Deepavali. But we can still push the administration to ensure that only green crackers are burnt in Bengaluru, that too during the specified timings.
BBMP, in a press release, has given clarity on the rules for wearing masks. Committees are also being formed at the local and city levels to ensure citizens’ compliance with the rules.
Yield of many fruits, vegetables and nuts are dependent on pollinators like bees and butterflies. Take the survey by ATREE on how the dwindling number of pollinators is affecting Benglaureans’ food habits and how this problem could be dealt with.
Santosh Doddaiah, 25, founded Covidbeds.org when he realised that government’s data on COVID hospital beds was wrong. He and his team have been directing patients to the right hospitals, and are now offering counselling and ambulance services too.
In the absence of a cure for Covid-19, plasma therapy is a line of treatment that is safe, well-tolerated by the human body and less expensive. But, there are few plasma donors.