COVID-19 night curfew: Hyderabad Metro Rail alters train timings
By Sakina Fatima| Published: 20th April 2021 5:56 pm IST
Hyderabad: To curb the continuous spike of COVID-19 cases, the Telangana government on Tuesday imposed a night curfew. All shops and establishments will stay shut from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. Following, this the Hyderabad Metro Rail authorities on Tuesday also announced that it will operate its last train at 7:45 p.m. instead of 9:30 p.m.
The last trip will commence from 7.45 p.m. and all terminal stations with the service reaching the destination station by about 8.45 pm till April 30.
Also, the metro rail services will run at a frequency of five minutes. The first train service has not changed and will continue to start at 6.30 am. HMR has also requested passengers to strictly adhere to the safety guidelines and any violations would attract appropriate fines.
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743 new infections in Greater Hyderabad region; active cases close to 43,000
COVID-19 infections and fatalities are consistently climbing north as the second wave of the pandemic gets fiercer by the day. Close to 6,000 cases and 18 deaths were recorded on Monday, both new records in the State.
While samples were put to test on Monday, a total of 5,929 turned up positive for coronavirus. With the 18 fresh deaths, the fatality figures have risen to 1,856.
Until April 1, the cases were restricted till 1,000 a day. Until two weeks ago, the number of districts which were recording cases in triple digits on a daily basis could be counted on the fingers, as most of them recorded less than 10 cases. That has changed with only five of the total 33 districts seeing double-digit cases.
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The by-election to the Lingojiguda division in Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation caused by the demise of BJP corporator-elect Akula Ramesh Goud even before taking oath kicked off a political storm in Telangana BJP. A delegation of BJP leaders called on TRS working president KT Rama Rao seeking his party’s support to facilitate the unanimous election of its candidate in the by-poll. The BJP fielded the departed leader’s son. The unanimous election is not possible only if TRS opts out. The BJP seems to have not made any such appeal to the congress, which is now considering contesting the by-poll. Yet, the BJP sought TRS support much to the consternation of political observers.
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HYDERABAD: Offices of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) have been working under tremendous pressure following many of their staff getting affected by Coronavirus.
After the second wave of pandemic began, 40 officials of just the civic body’s headquarters at Tank Bund have tested positive. Though general public are not being allowed to interact with officials since past few days, two officials from engineering wing, one from revenue, two from town planning, one from sports, three from IT, two from administrative wing, an engineer sitting on the ground floor, and officials of electrical wing have contracted the virus.
Roads go deserted as night curfew comes into force in Telangana
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Chennai: A Chennai cop wearing a Corona Helmet intercepts a lockdown violater on March 29, 2020. The cop wearing the helmet, police Inspector Rajesh Babu in collaboration with a local artist Gowtham had come with this innovative initiative to diss. Image Source: IANS News
Hyderabad, April 20 : Roads in Hyderabad and the rest of Telangana wore deserted look on Tuesday night as the night curfew came into force to contain the spread of Covid-19 pandemic.
The usual hustle bustle on main thoroughfares in Hyderabad was missing while police personnel set up check posts to restrict the movement of people.