Vacant sites in residential areas are overrun by weeds and have turned breeding grounds for mosquitoes, dogs and cattle.
HUBBALLI: As the Covid-19 positivity rate dips below 1%, people are gradually engaging themselves with their routines as earlier. But now people are worried about the unhygienic conditions in the surroundings of their residences.
As cities receive rain, the vacant sites in most residential areas have become breeding places for mosquitoes, pigs, stray dogs and other pests.
Civic authorities are now concentrating round the clock on Covid-19 work, which has hampered the other major cleaning works including cleaning of vacant sites to prevent mosquito-borne diseases.
Cops at Gokul Road said that the second wave of the pandemic has taught a lesson on the importance of oxygen
HUBBALLI: For the first time in the state, beat police will be roped in to adopt saplings, which they water everyday during duty hours in their respective areas.
Gokul Road station s police inspector has decided to rope in 91 constables to install tree guards and take care of saplings in the station limits. Gokul Road police station has 68 beats and a staff strength of 91, including officials. They have to plant saplings in their respective beat area. Officials have already collected saplings of peepal, neem and others.
Tribune News ServiceLudhiana, June 4
As many as 200 persons tested positive for Covid, while eight persons lost their lives to the virus in the district today. The total confirmed cases have now reac
HUBBALLI: With the intention to provide timely treatment to non-Covid patients of Hubballi city, the Hubballi-Dharwad Municipal Corporation (HDMC) has planned to dedicate two hospitals with 25 beds each, exclusively for non-Covid patients in Old Hubballi and SM Krishna Nagar.
For the first time in the state, since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, civic authorities are attempting to dedicate hospitals for non-Covid patients. As all government hospitals and most of the private hospitals have been converted into Covid hospitals, many non-Covid patients are reluctant to visit them, as they fear that they will get infected by the novel coronavirus.
HDMC is now preparing an action plan to set up two hospitals in Hubballi, on a trial basis, for non-Covid cases. The health officials have been asked to submit requirements such as staff, doctors, beds and others, for the hospitals. Dr Pandurang Patil, former mayor, HDMC, said it’s essential to set up dedicated hospitals for non-Cov