Telangana state on Saturday reported the first death due to Coronavirus. A 74-year old man from Khairatabad, who got admitted to Global Hospitals for other symptoms died and after death, he turned out to be a Coronavirus positive.
It is Coronavirus scare everywhere and there is hardly any scope for the political parties and leaders to indulge in criticism against one another.
Till the other day, not a single case of Coronavirus was detected in Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh. But now, the town is shuddering with fear.
Print media is facing the heat of the Coronavirus outbreak. Common people are literally scared to touch news dailies.
With the Andhra Pradesh government left in a helpless situation in conducting the budget session of the assembly in the wake of fast spreading of Coronavirus, it has decided to follow the ordinance route to pass a vote-on-account budget just for the first three months.
Andhra Pradesh government will bring in an Ordinance for vote on account budget for the three- month period up to June 30 for all Departmental expenses in wake of Covid-19 and the Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy held the cabinet meeting discussed in detail the measures to contain the spread of the virus.
It appears the NDA government at the Centre led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has decided to directly supervise the anti-Coronavirus operations in the states instead of leaving the entire burden only on states.
With the crisis at the Telangana-Andhra borders, where hundreds of Andhra people staying in Hyderabad got stranded in the last two days, turning into a major law and order issue, the state high court intervened on Friday to put an end to the chaos.
Former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister and Telugu Desam Party (TDP) President N. Chandrababu Naidu has hailed the steps taken by the Modi government to tackle COVID-19 threat.
The agitation by farmers of Amaravati against the decision of YSR Congress party government led by Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy to form three capitals for Andhra Pradesh with administrative capital at Visakhapatnam entered 100 days on Thursday.
A few Andhra Pradesh policemen were among the injured in a stone-pelting incident that took place at Pondugula checkpost in the Andhra Pradesh-Telangana border on Thursday evening.
While empathising with the thousands of people who were stranded at the Andhra-Telangana borders, YSR Congress party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy on Thursday firmly turned down their request to enter the state in such big numbers in view of Coronavirus scare.
The Andhra Pradesh government led by chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy might have reacted a little late on tackling the Coronavirus situation in the state, but after it plunged into action, it is taking commendable decisions at a great speed.
The chaotic situation prevailing at the Andhra-Telangana borders following the refusal of Andhra Pradesh government to allow thousands of people from Hyderabad to cross the border is purely due to lack of communication between the two state governments.
Looking at the crowd at number of vegetable markets across the country and people ignoring Prime Minister Narendra Modi's message of social distancing to combat coronavirus, the railways on Thursday provided its empty land for a vegetable market in Andhra Pradesh.
