Health

This explainer provides information on testing, when to hospitalise and how to find hospital beds.

BBMP has allocated only Rs 50 crore for Covid management in this year’s budget. Will this be enough?

Apartments are now organising vaccination drives within their premises in collaboration with BBMP and hospitals. Here’s how you can organise a vaccination camp at your apartment.

COVID cases spiked from 243 per day in February to about 3000 cases per day in March. While the fatality rate is less than 0.5%, the cases are spreading more rapidly in the second wave.

At hospitals, don’t expect the process specified by COWIN to be followed, says a citizen who took his parents for their vaccine shots.

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?

Four lakh healthcare and other frontline workers will be vaccinated when the vaccination programme begins on Saturday

If the vaccination process is on schedule, we could return to a semblance of normalcy in the next 7 to 8 months

Covid-19 exposed the shortcomings of our health system. Reorienting it to serve public needs and social goals should be the motto in 2021

The technical advisory committee had initially recommended night curfew after Christmas, but fear of the new strain of virus prompted immediate action.

The morale of ASHA workers, front line warriors in the battle against Covid-19, requires a boost.

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.