Testing targets for each district were increased based on recommendations of the state’s Covid-19 technical advisory committee
BENGALURU: With the state setting its sights on a minimum one lakh Covid-19 tests a day, results of many suspected Covid-19 patients are pending across districts. Swab samples are piling up in laboratories and sources say the backlog is to the tune of 20,000 a day.
Data TOI collated from daily bulletins issued by eight district administrations showed that 11,997 test results were pending as of Wednesday (March 31). Not all districts mention the number of samples yet to be tested in their bulletins.
Bagalkot topped the list with 3,897 samples awaiting tests, while Kalaburagi was not far behind with 3,261 results pending. Samples were also pending in Vijayapura (1,777), Yadgir (1,602), Bidar (800), Dharwad (403), Shivamogga (200) and Gadag (57).
BS Yediyurappa’s decision to give special grants to MLAs for road works reportedly angered KS Eshwarappa
BENGALURU: The management of a major rural infrastructure scheme, Grameena Sumarga, appears to be the trigger for the rift between BS Yediyurappa and KS Eshwarappa, who has protested the chief minister’s functioning style in a letter to the governor.
The Eshwarappa camp alleges that Yediyurappa has been directly providing special grants to MLAs for road works in their constituencies instead of making these allocations under the scheme and channelling the funds through the rural development and panchayat raj (RDPR) department. With MLAs unilaterally undertaking road works in their areas, Eshwarappa, the RDPR minister, has no say in which stretches should be developed first.
According to a BBMP officer, all hospitals must have 10% beds for +ve patients in next one week.
BENGALURU: With Covid-19 cases steadily increasing in Bengaluru, a majority of the hospitals treating the infections said most of their beds are occupied and doctors fear demand for ICU beds could throw up infrastructure and human resources challenges in the coming days.
Covid wards in major hospitals in the city are nearly full, despite 80% of the cases in the second wave are asymptomatic and require only home isolation. In a 1,000-bed hospital, 10% of the beds are for intensive care. In Covid care for severe patients, at least 40-50% beds should be in ICUs, doctors said.
Eshwarappa has been particularly critical after Yediyurappa became chief minister for the first time in 2008.
BENGALURU: Alleging CM BS Yediyurappa’s “authoritarian interference” in his ministry, Karnataka rural development and panchayat raj minister K S Eshwarappa on Wednesday sought the intervention of the governor and party leadership for revocation of orders and restoration of “peace” in the administration.
In a written complaint to governor Vajubhai Vala and BJP national general secretary in-charge of Karnataka Arun Singh, Eshwarappa accused Yediyurappa of direct interference in his ministry in violation of the Karnataka (Transaction of Business) Rules on division of power in the cabinet. A copy has been forwarded to PM Narendra Modi, home minister Amit Shah and BJP chief J P Nadda.
The mother and the baby girl were immediately attended to by a waiting medical crew.
BENGALURU: A passenger on board a commercial flight from Bengaluru to Jaipur gave birth to a baby girl midair on Wednesday morning.
She was attended by a doctor who happened to be her co-passenger on the flight.
The infant and the mother are healthy and were taken to a hospital in the Rajasthan capital.
According to sources, the childbirth took place on IndiGo airlines flight 6E 469 (Bengaluru to Jaipur) which took off from Bengaluru s Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) at 5.32am on Wednesday.
Dr Nazir who attended to the situation was lauded and felicitated by the IndiGo airline authorities