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This newsletter brings you updates from the portal www.electronic-city.in. Our mission is to spread neighbourhood awareness to ECitizens and regional information to netizens. Stay safe - Think positive -Team ECity Bangalore
Few fact checks of recent viral posts on social media
Fake: Indian Army set up 1000-bed COVID-19 hospital - last year news of COVID hospital set up in Delhi 2 drops of lemon in nose cannot prevent COVID-19 - death reported after unproven 'lemon therapy' Fake: COVID Patients 'Killed' in Bengaluru - Old clip from Punjab shared to mislead Government Insurance scheme for COVID-19 deaths - Partially true. Only PMJJBY, not PMSBY Can women on their periods take Covid-19 Vaccine? - Yes - confirms medical fraternity Nebulizer is not a substitute for oxygen cylinder - Nebulizer gives fine mist of life-saving drugs Inhaling steam can kill Corona virus - False. Only temporary relief Inhaling camphor, clove, ajwain, eucalyptus oil - does not increase blood oxygen level
Press news in reverse chronological order
Amid bed crisis, apartments set up facilities - Covid care centres for residents Bengaluru: Acute lack of oxygen beds - even VVIPs, ministers gasping How Tech companies are helping India - to battle Covid crisis Karnataka lockdown: List of trains cancelled - until 12 May, 6 am After Covishield, Covaxin prices reduced for States - Covaxin: Rs.600 to 400; Covishield : Rs.400 to 300 Vaccine shortage ahead of May 1 roll out for 18+ - those due for 2nd dose, forced to wait Govt. approves Rs.25 Cr to buy Remdesivir injection - and Rs.400 Cr to buy COVID vaccines Blood banks struggle to find plasma donors - for convalescent plasma therapy Bengaluru lockdown: All you need to know - 14 days from 27 April to 11 May Thousands leave city hours before lockdown - trucks with household goods, queued on Hosur Road IT companies expand Covid care facilities - for employees and their families Police complaints against 2 top hospitals - Apollo & Fortis hospitals, Bannerghatta Road Apollo Hospital booked for illegally blocking beds - at Bannerghatta Road Police nab 2 teen-agers for stealing mobiles - from IT companies in Electronic City Curfew leads to confusion among industries - Jigani-Anekal and Bommasandra industrial areas Infosys rolls out free Covid Care Center - for employees & families Find Covid-19 bed, oxygen cylinders, Remdesivir - BBMP helpline - 1912 Police on lookout for cab driver - who assaulted woman passenger at Singasandra 'Grant us O2 to save lives' - say Private hospitals at Anekal Wipro to organise Covid-19 vaccination camp - in its Electronic City campus As deaths mount, wait to perform rites lengthens - more than 10 hours outside crematorium Woman funeral staffer handles Covid bodies - Indian Christian Cemetery on Hosur Road, Shantinagar Covid-positive techie dies for want of oxygen bed - on his way to pvt hospital in Bommanahalli Silk Board-Airport metro line approved - to complete in 54 months Villages that are sought to be added to BBMP - Doddathoguru, Shikaripalya, Konappana Agrahara, Govindashettypalya, Dodda Nagamangala, Bettadasanapura, Mylasandra, Vittasandra etc. How Bengaluru hospitals are battling Remdesivir crunch - Health Minister says no shortage Remdesivir and Remdeceivers - agents selling for higher price Authorities wake up to rejuvenate Shikaripalya lake - Shikaripalya Lake Conservation Committee (SLCC) formed Biocon opens vaccination centre at Syngene - for employees & families 4 labourers electrocuted at construction site - at Indlabele in Anekal Taluk Rs 40 Cr invested to set up idly dosa batter factory - iD Fresh Food at Anekal KSPCB Launches App to track industrial waste - Jigani critically polluted
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