Vigil heightened at inter-State checkposts
The Hindu
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Amid the scare over a possible rise in COVID-19 cases on account of the threat posed by Omicron variant and the cluster outbreak in parts of State including Mysuru, health officials have heightened vigil at inter-State checkposts in Mysuru, Chamarajanagar, and Kodagu.
Only persons possessing an RT-PCR negative report with sample collected less than 72 hours earlier are being allowed to enter the State check through the Bavali checkpost on the Karnataka-Kerala border, health officials in Mysuru said. Even vaccinated persons have to produce the RT-PCR negative certificate.
Though the protocol had already been in place for the last couple of weeks, the vigil had been heightened in view of the fresh scare over cluster outbreak and the Omicron variant, an official added.
Chennai has two categories of Black kites: a larger group heading to the city from the western parts of India during the south west monsoon and heading back when the monsoon is past; and another group, smaller and resident, which would make minor movements in and around Chennai looking for an optimal atmosphere for nesting and raising the young. A couple of pylons in Perumbakkam suggest that Black kites have found an ideal nesting space there
This is part of the Karnataka Namakarana Suvarna Mahotsava celebrations organised to mark the naming of the State as ‘Karnataka’ during the tenure of the late D. Devaraj Urs. The statue, sculpted at an approximate cost of ₹21.24 crore, is 41-foot-tall including the pedestal and weighs around 31.5 tonnes.