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NON-HOT ZONES What will be allowed After April 20 11 districts classified ‘Red Zones’ 4 Agricultural and related activities l Health Ministry identifies 170 districts across India as hotspots and 207 districts as potential hotspots 4 Select industrial activities PNS n HYDERABAD 4 Digital economy For a district to The Central government has AP records 5 deaths, 4 Transportation of goods, both categorised 11 districts in shift from Red essential and non-essential Andhra Pradesh and nine dis- Zone to Orange tricts in Telangana as “Red 42 cases in 26 hours State flush 4 Agriculture marketing Zones with large outbreak”. Zone, no case 4 Manufacture, distribution, retail Within the Red Zone districts has to be VIJAYAWADA: Five people died of COVID-19 with funds, of fertilizers, pesticides, seeds across the country, 123 dis- reported 14 and 42 fresh cases were reported, taking tricts have been classified as the toll to 14 and the total number of not releasing 4 Fisheries; supply of milk, milk “hotspot districts with large consecutive days cases to 525 in the last 26 hours in products, poultry, live-stock outbreaks” and 47 districts as and from Orange Andhra Pradesh. The total number of for PPEs: TDP “hotspot districts with clusters”. patients who recovered from the virus farming n Telangana has eight such Zone to Green affliction now stood at 20 as four people PNS VIJAYAWADA 4 Tea, coffee and rubber hotspot districts with large out- Zone, no case got discharged from hospitals, the latest plantations breaks while Andhra Pradesh has to be medical bulletin said. From 9 am to 7 pm on In spite of the state govern- has 11. Barring Vizianagaram Wednesday, 23 cases were added with Kurnool ment being flush with funds, 4 Food processing industries in and Srikakulam, the remaining reported in reporting 13, Guntur four, Kadapa thre, SPS Nellore two and it’s not releasing money to rural areas 11 districts in Andhra Pradesh Anantapur one. Between 5 pm on Tuesday and 9 am on Wednesday, provide safety equipment for have been classified as “Red another 14 doctors and medical person- 4 19 cases were added in the state. A total of 19 cases were added in Construction of roads, Zone with large outbreak”. consecutive days Kurnool district since Tuesday evening, taking the tally to 110. With nel attending to Coronavirus irrigation projects, buildings, Telangana’s Nalgonda has the addition of eight cases in 26 hours, Guntur district now had 122, patients, alleged TDP senior industrial projects in rural areas been identified as hotspot clus- the highest in the state. A 76-year-old doctor in Kurnool city, who leader Yanamala ter while 19 districts in the state Orange Zone. These districts where the rate of infection has by the pandemic have been Ramakrishnudu on 4 was admitted to the government hospital on April 13 with COVID-19 Works under MNREGA, have been identified as non- have been categorised as Red been doubling in less than four placed under the Green Zone. symptoms, died the next dayand his test reports confirmed the Wednesday. especially irrigation and water hotspot reporting zones. Zone based on inclusion criteria, days. Strict containment mea- For a district to shift from Red affliction of the disease. The doctor was also suffering from heart In a statement here, conservation works The Union Health Ministry that is, if they have reported sures will be implemented in Zone to Orange Zone, no case and kidney ailments, besides being a diabetic, the bulletin added. A Yanamala lashed out at the has identified 170 districts across highest case load districts con- these hotspots, the Centre said. has to be reported 14 consecu- administration and asked the 4 74-year-old woman, a type-2 diabetic patient who also had Manufacturing, other industrial the country as Covid-19 hotspots tributing to more than 80 per Of the 207 districts that have tive days and from Orange tuberculosis, died in the government hospital in Guntur on April 12. government to “rename” establishments with access and 207 districts as potential cent of cases in lndia or the high- been classified as non-hotspot Zone to Green Zone, no case has Her blood test confirmed positive for Coronavirus on April 14. She Covid-19 as YSR Corona and control in SEZs, EoUs, industrial hotspots. As many as 28 of est case load districts contribut- districts have been placed under to be reported in another 14 hailed from Vijayawada. A 56-year-old man from New Delhi died in Jagan Corona. Telangana’s 33 districts are either ing to more than 80 per cent of the White Zone and 353 districts consecutive days. “It is despicable to note that estates and industrial townships Nellore on April 11. 3 in the Red Zone or in the cases for each state or districts that have not been affected at all 3 the government issued orders 4 Manufacture of IT hardware, of to state treasury offices not to essential goods and packaging release funds for wages of government employees and 4 Coal, mineral, oil production Jagan AP doubles Covid-19 for Corona relief measures,” 4 GOs making English must he charged. RBI, banks, ATMs, capital and indicted 55 debt markets as notified by SEBI 3 and insurance companies times, says tests to 4K per day 4 E-commerce, IT and IT-enabled in schools scrapped by HC PNS n VIJAYAWADA charged from quarantine facil- services, data and call centres PNS n VIJAYAWADA Anand Babu ity at the time of going home 4 Online teaching and distance PNS n NEW DELHI The Andhra Pradesh govern- after completing the medical learning In a major blow to the Andhra ment will double the Covid-19 protocol. He instructed the Pradesh government, the High TDP leader Nakka Anand testing capacity to 4,000 tests officials to conduct tests on 4 Health services and social Court on Wednesday struck Babu took potshots at the per day. This was decided in a around 32,000 members who sector down the GOs 81 and 85, mak- YSRCP government in the review meeting chaired by have been identified in the ing English the compulsory State on Wednesday in the Chief Minister YS family survey. The rapid 4 Central, state governments, medium of instruction in all wake of the AP High Court Jagan Mohan Reddy testing should start local bodies to remain open government schools. striking down GOs 81 and 85 here on by taking every While striking down the making English as the medi- Wednesday.

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