Tag: covid19

Telangana records 2,381 COVID-19 cases, total tally at 1,81,627

HYDERABAD: Telangana recorded 2,381 new cases of Covid-19 on Thursday, of the 57,621 tests that it conducted. As on Friday morning, reports of 1,388 tests were still awaited. On Thursday, the State recorded eight more deaths, taking the death toll to 1,080. The number of active cases in the State stands at 30,387, of whom […]

COVID-19: Centre Allows Andhra Pradesh Additional Borrowing Of Rs 2,525 Cr

NEW DELHI: The Centre has permitted Andhra Pradesh to go for additional borrowing of Rs 2,525 crore through Open Market Borrowings (OMBs) to meet its expenditure requirements amid falling revenues due to the COVID-19 crisis. The Department of Expenditure, under the Finance Ministry, has accorded approval to five states: Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Goa, Karnataka and […]

Telangana COVID-19 Update Sep 24: 2,176 New Cases, Tally At 1.79 Lakh

HYDERABAD: Telangana on Thursday reported 2,176 new COVID-19 cases, pushing the tally of positive infections to 1,79,246. With eight more fatalities, the death toll rose to 1,070. Out of the 2,176 fresh cases, 308 were recorded in the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC), followed by Rangareddy (168), Medchal Malkajgiri (151), Nalgonda (136), Karimnagar (120) and […]

Covid-19: CM Uddhav Thackeray appeals PM Modi to slash down Oxygen prices

There had been rising deaths in the country in spite of constant initiatives from government to control covid-19. In this regard, requesting the Center to give all conceivable assistance, Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi today that the state may confront lack of oxygen supply because of rising COVID-19 cases […]

CDC changes, then retracts, web posting on how coronavirus spreads through air

NEW YORK: The top U.S. public health agency stirred confusion by posting — and then taking down — an apparent change in its position on how easily the coronavirus can spread from person to person through the air. But officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say their position has not really changed […]

Madrid adopts new COVID-19 restrictions exposing poor-rich divide

MADRID: Police in the Spanish capital and its surrounding towns on Monday stopped people coming in and out of some working-class neighborhoods that have been partially locked down to stem Europe’s fastest coronavirus spread. The police controls will only relay information on the restrictions for the first two days. Enforcement of stay-in orders will be […]

20 mn more girls may not return to schools even after COVID-19, says Malala

ISLAMABAD: Malala Yousafzai, the youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner, has said that as many as 20 million more girls may not return to schools even after the COVID-19 crisis is over. Speaking on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York on Friday, the Pakistani Nobel laureate acknowledged that COVID-19 had been “a […]

AP Tops In COVID-19 Recovery Rate In India

Focussed and coordinated action by the Andhra Pradesh government’s effective clinical management of coronavirus and timely diagnosis led to a consistent increase in the number of recovered cases in the state. During the last 24 hours a total of 74,595 tests have been performed and 8,218 positive cases were reported. According to the reports, 10,820 […]

Covid situation in state could have been better: T Guv

Telangana Governor, Dr Tamilisai Soundararajan on Wednesday said the Covid situation in the state could have been better if some of the problems were initially dealt in a cautious manner. She said there was some lag initially due to certain problems but the TRS government later took various steps to handle the situation, taking into […]

KCR Fires On Pvt Hospitals; It’s Too Late!

After April, Telangana CM KCR did not speak to the media on Covid-19 and completely went silent. The Telangana High Court had to step in place of the state government and after too many hearings, the state government had to mend to the court’s orders. But in this gap, a lot has happened. The private […]

Big B on what disturbs him the most about Covid-19

Amitabh Bachchan has blogged to share what disturbs him most about the Covid-19 pandemic even as fear of the virus lingers on. He expressed his views in his new blog post, while talking about how he used to spend “Sundays filled with the joy of the evenings of well wishers”, which have turned into “Sundays […]

Telangana minister Harish Rao tests Covid-19 positive

Two days before the commencement of Telangana state legislature session, Finance Minister T. Harish Rao has tested positive for Covid-19. The minister took to Twitter on Saturday to declare that he is infected with Covid. He, however, said he was “fine”. “On getting initial symptoms of coronavirus, I got the test done and the report […]