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.
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Telangana's Minister for Municipal Administration and Urban Development, K.T. Rama Rao on Wednesday had lunch with workers of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) who are frontline warriors in the fight against coronavirus.
A team of top officials of Telangana government on Wednesday visited Suryapet district to assess the situation in the wake of a sudden spurt of Covid-19 cases and take steps to prevent the spread.
The number of Covid-19 cases in Telangana crossed 900 with as many as 56 more people testing positive on Tuesday.
The Telangana government on Tuesday directed all the schools in the state not to increase school fee during academic year 2020-21 and charge only tuition fee and that too on monthly basis, in view of the hardships caused by Covid-19 induced lockdown.
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Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao has been expressing his strong disappointment with the Centre for not coming to the rescue of the states financially to help them overcome the huge revenue loss on account of lockdown because of Coronavirus epidemic.
Even as Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has admitted that the Coronavirus epidemic has been spreading fast in the state, the testing of Covid-19 suspects has not been as fast as it should have been.