In further relief for Telangana, the state reported only two Covid-19 cases on Monday.
Eleven out of 33 districts of Telangana have become free from Covid-19.
Till a couple of months ago, there was a talk that Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao would hand over the mantle of the power to his son K T Ram Rao by this year end – may be by Dasara festival.
The arrival of five-member inter-ministerial central team on a three-day visit to Hyderabad starting Saturday to study the Covid-19 situation in the Telangana state capital raised many an eyebrow.
The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) on Monday turned 20 with low-key celebrations in view of the COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdown.
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Hinting at another extension of the lockdown, Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao on Sunday said if people extend their support to the lockdown for some more days, the situation would further improve.
Some coronavirus patients, undergoing treatment at the government-run Gandhi Hospital, here, are observing Ramadan fast. Asymptomatic patients in the Covid-19 designated hospital began observing the fast from Saturday, hospital sources said.
An Inter-Ministerial Central Team (IMCT) on Saturday arrived here to assess the COVID-19 situation and issue necessary directions to state authorities in tackling the pandemic.
Monitoring the Covid numbers coming from various official sources, something is not so clear about Telangana State.
As the holy month of Ramzan begins on Saturday, the Telangana govenrmetn has made all arrangements to healthy and nutritious meals to the Muslims undergoing treatment for Coronavirus in Gandhi Hospital.
The release of water into the Ranganayaka Sagar reservoir with waters of Kaleshwaram lift irrigation scheme has turned out to be yet another milestone in the Telangana irrigation sector and one more feather in the cap of state finance minister T Harish Rao.
In a humanitarian gesture, a police officer in Hyderabad paid Rs 20,000 from his pocket for the emergency surgery of a man from Himachal Pradesh who got stranded here due to the lockdown.
About 40 people from Andhra Pradesh and Odisha, who had come for a wedding, are stuck with the host at his house for over a month in Telangana's Sangareddy district.
The Telangana government has instructed the health department not to test the asymptomatic secondary contacts of Covid-19 patients, but ordered them to be quarantined for 28 days instead of 14 days.
Ever since the Coronavirus epidemic has gripped the entire world, forcing several countries to impose lockdown for several weeks, all the economic activity has come to a standstill and millions of people were rendered jobless.