Reasons: Sudden slashing of jab prices; Sunday holiday; unresponsive CoWIN app Mysore/Mysuru: The administration of booster doses for the 18-plus population at private hospitals from today failed to take off in Mysuru and many other places across the country primarily because pharma majors — Serum Institute of India (SII) and Bharat Biotech — announced a…
Govt. allots 10,000 doses to Mysuru District: Stock expected this evening
May 21, 2021Vaccination for 18 – 44 years to resume from tomorrow Mysuru/Bengaluru: Mysuru District has been allotted 10,000 doses of Covishield vaccine for resumption of vaccination for people in the age group of 18 to 44 years from tomorrow. With 3,810 doses of vaccine already available in the district, a total of 13,810 doses will be…
Persons above 45 years of age inoculated with Covishield
May 19, 202150 percent for frontline and healthcare workers’ second dose and 50 percent for public Mysore/Mysuru: The Mysuru District Administration has started the process of vaccinating residents who are above 45 years of age with first dose of Covishield. Fresh stocks have arrived in the district and the vaccination will be given at Primary Health Centres…
Covishield scarcity: District Health Officers resort to vaccine management
March 21, 2021Soon, KSRTC drivers, conductors and Postmen to get jab Fresh stock of COVID-19 vaccines expected next week Mysore/Mysuru: With stock of Covishield vaccine depleting in Mysuru district, Health Department Officers have resorted to internal adjustment by withdrawing excess stock from Taluk General Hospitals and diverting it to District Hospital as ‘stopgap’ arrangement. Till the fresh…
Get jab at 23 Pvt. Hospitals in Mysuru from Monday
March 6, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: To speed up Phase-3 COVID-19 vaccination drive, the State Government has approved 23 empanelled Private Hospitals in Mysuru to administer Covishield vaccine from Mar. 8 (Monday). Already, vaccination has been going on at 10 centres in the district since Mar. 1. In view of suggestions from medical experts to involve more Private Hospitals in…
Special drive for healthcare workers who missed date with vaccination
January 18, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: Over 400 health-care workers, who had missed the first dose of Covishield vaccination on the inaugural day in Mysuru District on Saturday last, will get another chance to get inoculated but only after completion of vaccination to already registered health staff. “Once the vaccination of the registered healthcare workers is over, the 406 persons…
Vaccination drive: Kodagu highest, Dakshina Kannada clocks lowest percentage
January 17, 2021Tepid response in Mysuru district on inaugural day Mysuru/Bengaluru: While the hilly district of Kodagu registered the highest vaccination percentage of 84 per cent, Dakshina Kannada has clocked the lowest percentage of 34 per cent on the first day of nationwide vaccine drive launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday. As against 21,658 persons…
Vaccination Drive begins in city
January 16, 2021Ambulance driver and Hospital house-keeping staff first to receive the shot in Mysuru city Mysore/Mysuru: U. Sandesh, an ambulance driver and Jayalakshmi, a hospital staff, became the first recipients of Covishield vaccine in Mysuru city at the Trauma Care Centre on KRS Road and JSS Hospital respectively on the first day of vaccination drive launched…
Packed with a prayer
January 15, 2021Sarve Santu Niramayah Mysore/Mysuru: The first consignment of Covishield vaccine that came to Mysuru in temperature-controlled trucks from Pune-based Serum Institute of India sported a Sanskrit shloka ‘Sarve Santu Niramayah’. The sticker was pasted on the boxes of the vaccine on the top right corner. Each box contains 50 vials of the vaccine and six…
State received 7.95 lakh vials in first consignment: Dr. K. Sudhakar
January 12, 2021PM clears Covaxin and Covishield vaccines Bengaluru: Karnataka received 7.95 lakh vials of Covishield vaccine this afternoon as the first instalment to launch vaccine drive from Jan. 16, said Health and Medical Education Minister Dr. K. Sudhakar. Talking to media persons here this morning, the Minister said that the State has been allotted 13.9 lakh…
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