Only 99 new Covid infections were detected out of the 15,766 samples tested in Telangana taking the tally of positive cases to 2,96,673 as of 8pm on Saturday.
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Mayor Vijaya Laxmi (L) with deputy Srilatha after their win
HYDERABAD: TRS on Thursday won the mayor and deputy mayor posts in the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) with a handsome majority, but only after it got support from Asaduddin Owaisi’s AIMIM. BJP put up candidates for both posts but did not get the needed numbers.
With this, GHMC got its first woman mayor since the formation of Telangana in Banjara Hills corporator Gadwal Vijaya Laxmi. Tarnaka corporator Mothe Srilatha will be her deputy. The mayor post had been reserved for women this time. Given the stiff competition for the posts, the TRS leadership had sent their names in a sealed cover. Even the corporators and ex-officio members were not informed about the names till the last minute. Vijaya Laxmi is the daughter of TRS secretary general and Rajya Sabha MP K Keshava Rao. She had been among the frontrunners for the post right from the start. Ahead of the 2018 assembly elections, she had tried to get a t
143 more test positive in TS, one succumbs
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The State recorded 143 COVID cases on Thursday.
According to the bulletin released by the Office of the Director of Public Health and Family Welfare released on Friday, the total number of cases now stands at over 2.96 lakh. The total number of active cases are 1,815.
One person succumbed to the virus on Thursday, taking the total number of deaths to 1,614. The total number of recoveries on Thursday was 152, which makes the total number of patients recovered over 2.92 lakh.
The State tested as many as 28,337 samples on Thursday. While the number of primary contacts who were tested was recorded as 12,468, the number of secondary contacts tested is 3,400.