COVID-19: GHMC to set up isolation centers in Hyderabad
Centers will be equipped with oxygen cylinders and other essential medical requirements
By News Desk| Posted by Sameer | Updated: 1st May 2021 11:32 am IST Representational photo
Hyderabad: In the wake of the recent surge in the COVID-19 cases, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has planned to set up isolation centers in the educational institutions and function halls. Every Zonal Commissioner has been directed to select a venue for isolation centers in their respective zones.
With the COVID-19 cases on the rise in the GHMC limits, the government instructed to set up isolation centers in the six zones where the patients with mild symptoms of COVID-19 can be treated instead of admitting in hospitals.
TS posts 7,754 new cases, less than 80,000 samples tested
Updated:
Updated:
Share Article
AAA
Telangana continued to witness comparatively low testing for the fourth consecutive day, leading to detection of fewer cases. On Friday, the State recorded 7,754 cases with a total of 77,930 tests being performed.
For a few days between April 8 and April 24, around 1 lakh to 1.3 lakh tests were being conducted on a daily basis. The all-time highest caseload of 10,122 was recorded on April 26 when 99,638 samples were examined. However, since then, the number of tests has been gradually dipping.
The number of fatalities, however, continues to remain over 50. On Friday, 51 COVID patients died. The death toll now stands at 2,312.
As COVID bodies burn, residents fume
Updated:
Updated:
People living near crematoriums forced to lock themselves up, trees turn brown
Share Article
People living near crematoriums forced to lock themselves up, trees turn brown
“Now he will pour diesel on the pyre to make it burn quickly,” says G. Ramulu watching from the terrace of his three-storeyed house in Bapu Nagar. And just as he predicts, a crematorium worker runs with a jerrycan of fuel and sloshes it over the wood pile making the fire roar into the air.
Four other pyres burn simultaneously, and two more bodies arrive in ambulances in quick succession at noon time on Saturday. The trees in the crematorium have turned brown by the continuous burning of corpses of COVID patients.
Updated:
Telangana, with lower testing, adds 7,754 cases
Share Article
AAA
A COVID patient being taken to the COVID Ward of KGH in Visakhapatnam on Saturday, May 01, 2021.
| Photo Credit:
K.R. DEEPAK
Telangana, with lower testing, adds 7,754 cases
Kerala’s COVID-19 case trajectory seemed to take a dip in what is viewed as the direct result of the stringent lockdown-like restrictions and public response to the crisis.
“The case numbers will grow but epidemic curve is slowing down, except may be in two or three districts. It effectively means that while the graph will continue to rise, the peak will not be as steep as we thought it is going to be,” a senior public health professional said.
Apr 30, 2021, 15:22 IST
HYDERABAD: The Telangana Government on Friday extended the night curfew till May 8 and issued orders to this effect. As per the orders signed by Chief Secretary M Somesh Kumar the curfew which was to end today was extended for another 7 days till 5 PM on May 8th. The government on April 20 issued orders imposing night curfew from 9 am to 5 am in view of the surging numbers of Covid-19 cases across Telangana. The curfew which was originally to be till 5 am on May 1, as per the Ministry of Home Affairs order on March 23 laying down guidelines for effective control of Covid-19 providing for States to impose local restrictions to prevent the spread of the virus.