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Hindustan Times
an hour ago
- Health
- Hindustan Times
Students wear masks, follow Covid appropriate behaviour as schools reopens in Karnataka
Bengaluru, As schools across Karnataka reopened on Monday after summer vacations, students in Bengaluru schools were spotted wearing masks as a precautionary measure amid surge in Covid-19 cases in the state recently. Students, teachers and non-teaching staffs in many schools across the state were wearing masks and maintained distance during interactions. Even parents who accompanied students to school were seen wearing masks as they came to drop their children on the first day of school. Covid-19 appropriate behaviour was seen being followed by students in many schools in Bengaluru City as they lined up at the entrance of the school maintaining distance while entering the premises. Their body temperatures were also being checked by the staffs. In view of the Covid-19 situation in the state and the reopening of schools, Karnataka government, in a circular issued on Friday, has asked parents not to send their children to school, if they have fever, cough, cold and other symptoms. The Commissioner, Health and Family Welfare has issued the circular for precautions to be taken in government and private schools, as instructed during the Covid-19 situation review meeting chaired by Chief Minister Siddaramaiahheld on May 26. It instructs parents to send the children to school only after complete cure. If children come to school with fever, cough, cold and other symptoms, inform their parents and send them back to home, the Health Department further said. If these symptoms are found among the school teachers and non-teaching staff, they should be advised to follow appropriate precautionary measures, the circular said. It also calls for ensuring adherence to precautionary measures like hand hygiene, cough etiquette and other Covid 19 Appropriate Behaviors . 'Overall, strict adherence to Covid-19 precautionary measures has been instructed in the interest of the health of school children,' it added. As of Sunday evening 253 Covid active cases have been reported in the state. Four patients with the infection, who had other comorbidities, have died since January 1.
Yahoo
21 hours ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Muskogee Board of County Commissioners regular meeting — agenda
WHAT: Muskogee Board of County Commissioners regular meeting. WHEN: 8:30 a.m. Monday. WHERE: Muskogee County Services Building, 400 W. Broadway, Suite 010. AGENDA Consider: — Purchase orders, monthly reports, minutes of the May 27, 2025 regular meeting and minutes of the May 30, 2025 special meeting. — Julianne Montgomery as the Interim Regional Administrative Director for the Muskogee County Health Department. — OSU Extension Estimate of Needs FY 25/26. — Contract with Comanche County Juvenile Detention Center. — Lease purchase agreement renewal #229686 from Security National Bank, for a 2023 Mack Truck #1937 for District 1. — Contract between Eastern Oklahoma Youth Services & Muskogee County for the Pittsburg County Regional Juvenile Detention Center. — ODOT /SA&I Form 100 for the County Road and Machinery and Equipment Revolving Fund Purchase Contract for District 2. — Purchase of a Side by Side for Buckhorn Volunteer Fire Department. — Vendor contract for STS Refill Technology for the Muskogee County Assessor. — Pursuant to 25 OS 307(()11, discussion and possible action to convene in executive session to confer on matters pertaining to economic development projects related to Port Muskogee and take appropriate action in open session. — Pursuant to 25 OS 307{8){4), discussion and possible action to convene in executive session to receive confidential communication between the public body and its attorney concerning a pending investigation, claim or action if the public body, with the advice of its attorney, determines that public disclosure will seriously impair the ability of the public body to process the claim or conduct a pending investigation, litigation, or proceeding in the public interest. Keefeton Volunteer Fire Department v. Board of County Commissioners, case no CV-23-185 and case no 12306. — Pursuant to 25 OS 307{8){4), discussion and possible action to convene in executive session to receive confidential communication between the public body and its attorney concerning a pending investigation, claim or action if the public body, with the advice of its attorney, determines that public disclosure will seriously impair the ability of the public body to process the claim or conduct a pending investigation, litigation, or proceeding in the public interest. USAC Leasing v. Muskogee County Assessor case no CV-24-330 2023 and EQ-24-45 2024 — Vote to adjourn Executive Session and return to Regular Meeting and possible votes regarding the above-referenced case.
India.com
a day ago
- Health
- India.com
Corona cases jump 1300% in 9 days, 21 deaths in just..., active cases surge to...
File/Representational Corona cases: Amid the latest wave of Covid-19, the number of SARS-CoV2 infections in the country has risen to 3783, rising at a rate of 1372 % in the last nine days. As many as 511 new cases were recorded from the previous day, according to the latest update by the Health Ministry on Saturday. Meanwhile, 255 patients were discharged or migrated in the last 24 hours, indicating an improvement in recovery. According to the website of the Health Department, there were 257 cases in India on May 22. As per the data, Kerala has the highest number of cases at 1400. Maharashtra has 485 active cases and Delhi has 436 active cases. There have been 28 deaths due to corona since January. Out of these, 21 people have died in the last 2 days. Kerala with 1,147 cases is the worst-hit state, followed by Maharashtra (424), Delhi (294), and Gujarat (223). The highest number of deaths have been reported from Maharashtra (7), followed by Kerala (5), and Delhi (2). Meanwhile, 255 patients were discharged or migrated in the last 24 hours, indicating an improvement in recovery. The cumulative number of recovered cases since January 1 stands at 1,170. Kerala (72), Delhi (77), and Maharashtra (34) contributed the highest number of recoveries on the day. As per the latest data from the Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium (INSACOG), set up under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, NB.1.8.1 and LF.7 — descendants of JN.1 Covid variant in the country –are responsible for the rise in SARS-CoV-2 cases in the country. Common symptoms associated with these variants include fever, runny nose, sore throat, headaches, fatigue, and exhaustion. Recently, Dr. Rajiv Bahl, Director General at the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) assured the country that there is nothing to worry about as the infections are not severe. (With inputs from agencies)
The Hindu
a day ago
- General
- The Hindu
Gender Agenda newsletter: Late to the plate
During my first week in Mumbai three years ago, my cook walked into the house asking, 'Aaj kya banau (What shall I make today)?' As I rummaged through the vegetables in the fridge, she made up her mind herself, declaring, 'Aloo banati hoon; Bhaiyya ko bahut pasand hai (I'll make potatoes; Bhaiyya loves it).' This continued for days, and my husband and I ended up eating several kilos of aloo and paneer — his favourites. One day, when I could no longer take it, I snapped. 'Ek baar tho pooch lo ki mujhe kya pasand hai (Ask me at least once what I'd like),' I said to her. She laughed. In Kiran Rao's Laapataa Ladies (2023), when Jaya asks Yashoda why she stopped making the lotus stem stir-fry that she loved eating at her parents' house, Yashoda says it is because her husband and son don't touch it. 'You like it. Make it for yourself,' Jaya says. Yashoda laughs, much in the way my cook did. 'Since when do women make what they like eating,' she asks. It is not uncommon for Indian women to believe that men's dietary preferences should be considered foremost. It is also well-documented that many women are accustomed to eating leftovers because of the dictates of patriarchy. According to the 2011 India Human Development Survey, in about a quarter of Indian households, women are expected to have their meals after men have finished eating. This means that they end up with cold rotis, little dal, and no leafy veggies. This can be true even of relatively progressive households. As the novelist, Shashi Deshpande, wrote in an essay titled Women, Food and Cooking (2022): '...My mother, protesting that she had had enough, possibly deprived herself when something was insufficient. Not just this; the burnt chapati was hers, the broken jowar roti was hers, the cracked cup was hers, the dented and smallest plate was hers.' For many women, while preparing food is a duty, responsibility, or a labour of love, the ritual of eating is considered a waste of time. You may find few women licking their fingers, burping, or scraping tasty titbits off the pan. Being late to the plate has serious implications for women's physical and mental health. Early this year, Maharashtra's Health Department found that women are more likely to be susceptible to malnourishment and nutritional deficiencies than men. As this piece pointed out last week, not just women's health but maternal health too is seen solely from the lens of pregnancy and childbirth. 'In India's long battle against malnutrition, women and girls remain the most overlooked section,' said this piece, ahead of World Nutrition Day (May 28). Various efforts have been made to change this trend. In 2015, the Rajasthan Nutrition Project ventured on a mission to encourage families to eat their meals together in two districts. Despite finding stiff resistance, they managed to make a difference. In 2017, Punita Chowbey found in her study of 84 South Asian women living in Britain, India, and Pakistan that women sometimes took matters into their own hands. Whenever they were upset with their husbands, they would alter the order in which they served food, or simply serve smaller portions (though they would give the extra portions to their sons). This week, women were invited to attend an international film festival in the scenic village of Kadamakudy, Kerala, and served lunch and dinner. Fr Augustine Vattoli, the parish priest in the locality and the joint convenor of the festival, said in this piece, 'We knew that it was not enough just to tell the women to come and attend the film fest. We knew they would ask us who would cook food then. But then we had the answer ready...' It was a thoughtful gesture: entire families, and not just men, enjoyed the festival together. As for my cook, after being chided a few times, she sometimes walks in now announcing, 'Aaj pulao banati hoon. Mujhe pata hai ki aapko pasand hai (Let me make pulao today, I know you like it).' I smile and tell her I cannot wait to dig in. Toolkit Bengaluru-based writers and teachers Nikhita Thomas and Pranav V.S. have embarked on a project to map places where women hung out in Bangalore's Cantonment area between 1984 and 1994. They tell Preeti Zachariah that they chose this period because waves of liberalisation took place then, and more and more women could be seen on the streets of the city on the Kinetic Honda — a phenomenon that the historian, Janaki Nair, terms 'kineticization'. Supported by the India Foundation for the Arts under its Neighbourhood Engagements of Project 560, this project 'seeks to explore the spatial relationships women have with the cities and neighbourhoods they call home'. The stories of the women will come together in an art essay book and will be showcased at 1 Shanthi Road Gallery/Studio in Bengaluru on June 14 and 15. Wordsworth Reactionary feminism: Advocated by British writer Mary Harrington, this 'begins from the truth that sex differences are real, irreducible and politically important.' Harrington in her work questions the very assumptions of modern feminism, which, she believes, has benefited only a small class of well-off, white-collar women. In this interview, Harrington, the author of the book Feminism Against Progress (2023), says to be a reactionary feminist is to 'ground the way you live in recognition both of what makes us human together — and also in the distinct embodied capabilities and vulnerabilities of women, understood as powers and not merely as a problem to be solved with technology.' Ouch! Our sisters who lost their husbands in the (Pahalgam) attack did not have the warrior spirit or the resolve and vigour to fight back. Therefore, they became victims. Rajya Sabha MP Ram Chander Jangra People we met Dr. V. Shubhalaxmi, an entomologist and educationist, is popularly known as the 'Moth Lady'. The name stuck decades ago when she was working with the Bombay Natural History Society. 'This was in 1993,' she says. 'I belong to a generation that didn't question its teachers much. My guide asked me whether I could study moths instead of butterflies since the field was largely unexplored and I said, why not? I would venture into fields and forests to set up the light sheet and spend the whole night studying moths. There were challenges of logistics and safety, but I had a vehicle, a driver, and an assistant.' In 2003, she finished her PhD and began studying more species of moths. This resulted in the book, Field Guide to Indian Moths, published in 2018, a pioneering resource in entomology. Dr. Shubhalaxmi is now working on the second volume of the book, while also working on an insect encyclopaedia for children. 'Back in the day, I was the only woman in the field. But now there are many women studying moths,' she says.
New Indian Express
a day ago
- Health
- New Indian Express
Surge in Covid-19 cases, two deaths in Delhi last 24 hours
NEW DELHI: Delhi reported two Covid-19 related deaths in the last 24 hours — a 60-year-old woman and a 71-year-old man. In both cases, the infection was incidental, as the patients were already suffering from other serious illnesses. 'The woman, diagnosed with acute intestinal obstruction post-laparotomy, died before her scheduled surgery. The man, suffering from acute pneumonia, had been hospitalised for nearly a week,' Health Department officials said. Officials told this newspaper that samples of both deceased sample have been sent to the Lok Nayak Hospital laboratory to confirm the variant of the Covid-19. 'We are yet to ascertain which variant they were infected with. It will be confirmed after the genome sequencing report,' a senior health official said. Delhi now has 375 active cases — a rise of 275 since the government's recent advisory. So far, 3 Covid-related deaths have been reported this year and 81 new cases were added in last hours in city.
