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The situation has worsened in the last 10 days, leaving the government on tenterhooks.
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A Covid positive woman being taken to Corona Outpatient Department at Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital in Chennai on Tuesday | DEBADATTA MALLICK
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VELLORE: With a large chunk of the working class population, Gudiyatham, in Vellore district, has become a hotbed of Covid, with about 10 people dying of the disease and severe respiratory problems daily. The situation has worsened in the last 10 days, leaving the government on tenterhooks.
Activists in Gudiyatham, a hub of small industries in the district, say about 100 Covid cases are reported in the region every day. But officials of the Health Department say the number is only between 60 and 80, and the rest are Severe Acute Respiratory Infections (SARI) cases.
Telangana: 75-year-old Covid patient dies after five private hospitals, MGM deny admission
75-year-old critical Covid patient turned away due to shortage of beds; negligence of docs & medical staffers killed my father, alleges son
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WARANGAL: In a shocking incident, a 75-year-old Covid positive patient in critical condition, who was denied admission in about five private hospitals due to shortage of beds, breathed his last on the premises of MGM Hospital in Warangal, late on Thursday night. According to sources, the man died while he was waiting to get admitted at MGM. The victim has been identified as Modha Vishwanath, a resident of Pedda Pendyala village of Dharmasagar mandal in Warangal (Urban) district.
Karnataka minister favours extension of lockdown in state
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Bengaluru, May 15 : Karnataka Revenue Minister R. Ashoka on Friday favoured extension of the 14-day lockdown to contain the Covid spread in the state, which is in the grip of the pandemic s second wave. As the 14-day lockdown since May 10 has helped us in controlling Covid cases, I am in favour of extending it beyond May 24 to contain the virus spread further, Ashoka told reporters here.
Noting that new cases which were over 25,000 in a day in Bengaluru earlier declined to about 17,000 daily after the lockdown was imposed, Ashoka said its extension would further reduce the caseload.
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Telangana Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar expressed confidence that COVID-19 cases were reduced in the last 10 days and reiterated that the curve was flattening. The Chief Secretary also said that a door-to-door survey was going on in Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) limits as well as several districts, where a high number of Covid-19 cases have been reported.
In the GHMC area itself, health workers have identified nearly 1,500 people with fever and Covid symptoms for checkups and tests.
Andhra Pradesh has also done door-to-door surveys in the past few days to identify over 32,000 individuals with influenza-like symptoms as well as people with travel history.