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September) with a model error of 5 per cent. on a Reuters query on the memo. procedure for COVID-19 patients. IN NON-HOT ZONES ‘Lockdown to continue, exemptions What will be allowed TS govt to increase After April 20 will be considered after April 20’ 4 Agricultural and related activities n PNS HYDERABAD Somesh Kumar, DGP 4 working hours Mahender Reddy, Principal Select industrial activities Chief Minister K secretary (Finance) 4 Digital economy L VENKAT RAM REDDY Chandrasekhar Rao declared Ramakrishna Rao and others n HYDERABAD on Wednesday that lockdown attended. 4 Transportation of goods, both in the state will continue as it Etela Rajender explained essential and non-essential The state government is likely is till April 20. Any decision on the arrangements made for 4 to increase the working hours exempting a few sectors from coronavirus tests and the mea- Agriculture marketing for employees across all sectors the lockdown will be taken sures taken to meet future 4 Manufacture, distribution, retail and establishments post lock- only after April 20, depending requirements. He said that of fertilizers, pesticides, seeds down to compensate for the loss on the circumstances prevail- there were 514 active cases in of working days until then. ing then and in tune with the the hospitals, eight were dis- 4 Fisheries; supply of milk, milk Should the lockdown be Centre's guidelines for lock- charged on Wednesday and products, poultry, live-stock lifted on May 3, the total loss down relaxations issued on another 128 would be dis- farming of working days until then Wednesday. charged on Thursday. would be 40 days. The Chief Minister also stat- KCR observed that lock- 4 Tea, coffee and rubber The Labour Act presently ed that the government was down in the state had been plantations limits normal working hours to ready to conduct tests on any implemented well. People 8 hours per day. This is likely number of people and offer extended excellent coopera- 4 Food processing industries in to be raised to 10 hours for treatment to people down with tion and they should contin- rural areas employees working in offices n In line with central n Working hours to be coronavirus. He wanted the ue their support in the days to and 12 hours for those work- initiative shown by people's As per the guidelines given by the Centre, lockdown in the come. 4 Construction of roads, ing in industries and factories. ordinance soon to raised from 8 hours to representatives, cooperation State would continue till April 20, as it is. Later, based on "As per the guidelines given irrigation projects, buildings, The State government will compensate for lockdown 10 or 12 hours extended by people for the the circumstances prevailing then, changes would be done. People by the Centre, lockdown in the industrial projects in rural areas notify the new working hours implementation of lockdown, should support the lockdown as they are doing now State would continue till April after Centre passes an ordi- governments the flexibility government and private sectors, and the assistance being given 20, as it is. Later, based on the 4 Works under MNREGA, nance to this effect. The ordi- required to increase the work the ordinance is expected to to the poor to continue. — K CHANDRASEKHAR RAO, Chief Minister circumstances prevailing then, especially irrigation and water nance is expected to be brought hours of employees across estab- address labour shortage and The Chief Minister held a changes would be done. People conservation works any time before lifting of lock- lishments up to 12 hours per day facilitate companies to maintain high-level review on the mea- assistance given to the poor, at Pragathi Bhavan on should support the lockdown down on May 3. Official sources from the present eight hours. social distancing upon resump- sures taken to contain the procurement of the agriculture Wednesday. as they are doing now," the 4 Manufacturing, other industrial said the Centre is planning to Apart from addressing the tion of operations post lockdown. spread of coronavirus, imple- produce, Central government's Health Minister Etela Chief Minister said. establishments with access bring an ordinance to give state issue of loss of working days in 2 mentation of the lockdown, guidelines, among other issues, Rajender, Chief Secretary 2 control in SEZs, EoUs, industrial estates and industrial townships COVID-19 AP HC sets aside FOR THE FIRST TIME IN APRIL 4 Manufacture of IT hardware, of 9 districts in TS and 11 in essential goods and packaging Submit complete English medium Telangana reports 4 Coal, mineral, oil production report: HC compulsory GOs 4 RBI, banks, ATMs, capital and AP classified as Red Zones single digit cases debt markets as notified by SEBI PNS n HYDERABAD PNS n HYDERABAD PNS n AMARAVATI and insurance companies n PNS HYDERABAD 3 in Vikarabad were reported 4 E-commerce, IT and IT-enabled The Telangana High Court The Central government has In a setback to Jaganmohan as of Wednesday. services, data and call centres on Wednesday directed the categorised 11 districts in Reddy government, Andhra Telangana State on Additionally, eight persons state to submit a complete Andhra Pradesh and nine dis- Pradesh High Court on Wednesday reported only six were discharged on 4 Online teaching and distance report explaining about the tricts in Telangana as “Red Wednesday set aside its more Covid-19 cases in the Wednesday, taking the total learning specific measures taken to Zones with large outbreak”. orders to make English medi- state, taking the total number number of patients cured to control spread of deadly Within the Red Zone dis- um compulsory in all state- of reported cases to 650. 118. In all, 128 persons will 4 Health services and social Coronavirus in the state. It tricts across the country, 123 run schools. Almost after 15 days, be discharged on sector issued these orders as it was districts have been classified as While striking down the fresh cases have been Thursday. There are not satisfied with the full “hotspot districts with large Government Orders (GOs), reported in single 514 active cases in 4 Central, state governments, report submitted by the state outbreaks” and 47 districts as the court ruled that medium digit. Till date in the state. local bodies to remain open government on the Covid-19 “hotspot districts with clusters”. of instruction should be the April, the number of The Health issue. Telangana has eight such choice of the children and reported cases Department on A division bench of the hotspot districts with large their parents. ranged between a Wednesday said, "In NOT ALLOWED High Court comprising of outbreaks while Andhra The state government has high of 75 cases (3 case of any flu- like 6 the Chief Justice of the state Pradesh has 11.