Telangana government has announced the vaccination programme to cab drivers, autorickshaw and maxi cab drivers in Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation.
With the onset of Southwest monsoon on the Kerala coast, heavy rains lashed several parts of Telangana since early hours of Thursday, met officials said.Many districts received rains with lightening and gusty winds, inundating low-lying areas .
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], June 3 (ANI): In a bid to vaccinate all vulnerable groups against Covid-19, the Telangana government on Thursday started a special vaccination drive for cab and auto drivers.
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Special drive launched in GHMC limits
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Special drive launched in GHMC limits
The State government has initiated the process for vaccinating more than 2 lakh auto, cab, taxi and maxi cab drivers in Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation limits.
A special drive was launched on Thursday at 10 centres set up for administering the vaccine to the high risk groups over the next 20 days. Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar visited the vaccination centre at Raj Bhavan where the targeted group took the first dose.
Officials informed the Chief Secretary that all the licensed drivers should register themselves in the website of the Transport Department. They would subsequently receive message on their mobiles and only those drivers who received the communication would be allowed at the vaccination centres.
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Better immunity: Auto and cab drivers wait for their turn at a COVID vaccination centre at Nacharam on Thursday.
18 persons lose battle to COVID
Telangana continued to keep up the high testing rate of above one lakh for the second successive day with 2,261 positive cases detected from 1,10,169 tests done and results of 1,198 awaited, even as the total active cases home isolation or in hospitals were pegged at 32,579 on Thursday.
There were 18 fatalities on Thursday, taking the overall death count to 3,331 and 3,043 recoveries taking the total number of recoveries to 5.50 lakh whereas the total number of infected rose to 5.86 lakh. There were 2,384 positive cases on testing 1.08 lakh persons with 17 mortalities the previous day while the recoveries were 2,242.