The news that Guntur MLA Mustafa and his family members have joined the quarantine ward with Coronavirus symptoms has been shaking the state of Andhra Pradesh.
The Andhra Pradesh government on Sunday decided to reduce relaxation in the lockdown by two hours in urban areas as part of new measures to contain the spread of coronavirus.
Sometime an initiative taken up by a leader will help the society in some aspect and brings a positive change.
Chalasani Srinivas Chowdary has stated, "Since only few tests are performed to the population, only a few positive cases are confirmed Covid Positive".
The Andhra Pradesh government has identified key areas during the 21-day lockdown imposed to tackle the coronavirus crisis.
Andhra Pradesh government will distribute free rice along with 1 kg dal to the poor on March 29 and the same will get similar package on April 15th and 29 while pensions will be disbursed on April 1 at the doorstep apart from Rs 1000 and on April 4.
The YSR Congress party government in Andhra Pradesh led by Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy on Saturday took an important and a welcome decision to prevent large scale influx of people and migrant labourers from neighbouring states into AP.
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.
