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KOCHI: The picturesque green groves and the simple life of rural villages she saw on a Malayalam travel magazine fascinated Kakkanad native Mitra Satheesh, an Ayurveda doctor. She decided to go on a solo drive to explore them. When the plan came to the execution level, her 10-year-old son Narayan hopped on too. The duo started its pan-India trip named, ‘Oru Desi Drive’ on March 17, with a plan to cover the length and breadth of the country by road, in 100 days, covering more than 20,000 kilometres.
They had crossed 27 states and six union territories in 50 days as of Wednesday. However, the second wave of the pandemic hampered their trip, forcing the duo to wind up their tour early. “We had to make a sudden change of plans as I had to get back to the Government Ayurveda Hospital, Tripunithura, for Covid duty. But we managed to cover all the states. We hope to reach Kochi before the second week of May,” says Mitra who spoke to us from Jammu and Kas
Corporation to open three more treatment centres
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90% of the 374 beds at five FLTCs in city occupied
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90% of the 374 beds at five FLTCs in city occupied
The city Corporation has decided to open three more COVID-19 treatment centres, out of which two will be COVID first-line treatment centres (FLTCs) and one a secondary care centre.
The first-line treatment centres will be at the Government ESI hospital, Peroorkada, and the Government Ayurveda Hospital, Poojappura. The secondary care centre will be set up at the Panchakarma Ayurvedic Hospital at Poojappura. All these facilities will have hundred beds each.
The centres would start functioning from Monday, Corporation Secretary Binu Francis told
Quarantine centers likely to make a comeback in Telangana
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Hyderabad: With the spike in the daily count of coronavirus cases, the Telangana government is considering the option to set up quarantine centers.
Health minister Etela Rajender held a meeting with health secretary Ramesh Reddy and other higher officials to discuss the rising number of covid-19 cases in the state.
Addressing media, the minister said that the government was never on the back seat in tackling the covid-19 cases. It took standard preventive measures in handling the pandemic which is the reason the positive cases are less in comparison to other states, he added.