Lockdown resulting in decline of Covid cases, says Telangana ministers
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No move to shut down theatres in Telangana: Minister. Image Source: IANS News
Hyderabad, May 17 : Implementation of lockdown and co-ordination among various departments is leading to gradual decline in the new Covid-19 positive cases in Telangana, two state ministers said on Monday.
Animal Husbandary minister Talasani Srinivas Yadav and Home Minister Mohammed Mahmood Ali reviewed the Covid situation in Greater Hyderabad with the Mayor, District Collector and officials of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC).
They observed that with the implementation of lockdown, proper functioning of government hospitals and Basthi Dawakhanas, door to door fever survey and special sanitation drive, the number of positive cases have declined.
COVID-19: Telangana daily cases decline; shortage halts 2nd dose of Covaxin
The cumulative count of COVID-19 cases in Telangana has crossed 5.28 lakh on Sunday.
By Sakina Fatima| Updated: 17th May 2021 1:29 am IST Representative Image Photo: PTI
Hyderabad: The second dose of Covaxin (developed by Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech) vaccination drive for the persons above 45-years old was postponed due to inadequate stock and non-receipt of fresh stocks from the ministry of health and family welfare. The update was posted in a tweet by Telangana State Public Health Department director Dr G Srinivasa Rao on Sunday here.
Dr. Srinivasa Rao further said that details regarding resumption of vaccination drive will be made subsequently. If government statistics, the second wave of the COVID-19 crisis in Telangana is easing gradually with the state recording 3,816 fresh COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, according to Sunday’s data. This was the lowest since April 15, when the stat
Plan presented to govt. for approval to take up to 500 random blood samples
Bang in the middle of the COVID pandemic’s second wave, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)-National institute of Nutrition (NIN) is planning to conduct a first ever Statewide sero-surveillance study of the spread of SARS-COV-2 in Telangana, other than the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC), in association with the TS Medical and Health Department soon. We have earlier done similar sero-surveillance studies in three districts as part of the national-level estimation of the virus spread and later for the GHMC, so this effort will be to check for transmission all over Telangana by random sampling in each of the 32 districts, said ICMR-NIN Head of Public Health, Senior Scientist & Epidemiologist Dr. A. Laxmaiah on Sunday.
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