Telangana Ready to Hike Covid19 Testing Says Chief Minister
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INDIAN 17 April 2020 | Friday | Volume No: 8| Issue No: 50 Pages: 8 CHRONICLE www.indianchronicle.com Published from : Ranga Reddy (Telangana State) 3 Coronavirus Outbreak: 170 Districts Countrywide Telangana cabinet to meet on April 19 Categorised As Hotspots The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has categorised 170 districts as hotspots in its battle against over lockdown exemptions the Coronavirus pandemic raging through the country, the news agency ANI reported. It has also identified 207 Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao convened cabinet meeting on April 19 to discuss the issues districts which have clusters and are in the non-hotspot zone. Districts without infections fall under the Green pertaining to the new set of guidelines issued by union government which announced partial relaxation to some Zone. These 170 hotspot districts will further be broken up into two sub-categories--those with large outbreaks sectors to resume their operations from April 20 onwards. (123) and ones with clusters (47). If no cases get reported for a period of 14 days, a hotspot district can be turned Learn More“4/16/2020 Telangana cabinet to meet on April 19 over lockdown exemptions .The cabinet will take a into an orange zone. Further, if a district does not report coronavirus positive cases for 28 days, it can be moved decision whether to enforce all the new norms or a few depending on the intensity of the spread of deadly virus in the to the green zone,“4/16/2020 Hyderabad techie develops app to provide free ration to the needy not report state. coronavirus positive cases for 28 days, it can be moved to the green zone, according to the ANI report. Telangana ready to hike covid19 Maharashtra, Delhi and TN lead in covid cases testing says chief minister New Delhi: GNS News Agency, April 16 government has made all INDIAN CHRONICLE BUREAU The death toll due to arrangements for their treat- HYDERABAD, APRIL 16 coronavirus rose to 414 and ment,” he said. Chief Minister K. the number of cases to Rao said there is no Chandrashekhar Rao on 12,380 in the country on scarcity of Personal Protec- Wednesday said the state Thursday, according to the tion Equipment (PPE) kits government is geared up to Union Health Ministry. and N95 masks which are increase the number of While the number of important for the personal coronavirus tests and active COVID-19 cases is safety of healthcare handle increase in number 10,477, as many as 1,488 of Covid-19 patients. professionals in the people have been cured state. “We announced 259 and discharged and one containment centres to stop “Currently, we have had migrated, it said. the spread. Stringent steps 2.25 lakh PPE kits. Very The total number of were taken to contain it,” he soon, we will have five lakh eight were discharged on people have by and large cases include 76 foreign said kits. We have placed orders Wednesday and another supported the lockdown, the nationals. for yet another five lakh kits, 128 would be discharged Chief Minister has urged Chief Minister K. Twenty-two deaths which would take the stock on Thursday. He said there people to further support the Chandrashekhar Rao were reported since to 10 lakh. We are having are 514 active cases as on steps being taken by his gov- emphasised the need for Wednesday evening, the 3.25 lakh N95 masks now. date in the state. ernment to fight the highly with the virus in Uttarakhand, adequate test kits to conduct ministry said in its updated their lives in Jammu and ministry's data updated in Once our orders for addi- virulent disease. He also ap- while Himachal Pradesh tests on any number of He said the state would data. Kashmir while Kerala, the morning, the highest tional masks are delivered, follow the Central preciated officials for their Haryana and Rajasthan number of confirmed cases has 35 cases. Assam and people in the state. Nine fatalities were re- we will have five lakh units. government’s guidelines on handling of the situation. have recorded three deaths in the country is from Chhattisgarh have regis- “All medical equipment, ported from Maharashtra, We have placed orders for the lockdown till April 20 and For continuing sanita- each. Maharashtra at 2,916, fol- tered 33 cases each. including ventilators, doc- five from Andhra Pradesh, another five lakh masks,“ the would decide the next tion works unimpeded lowed by Delhi at 1,578 and Jharkhand has 28 tors, other medical staff, hos- three from Gujarat, two each Jharkhand has re- Chief Minister said. course of action based on across the state, Rao said the Tamil Nadu at 1,242. cases, Chandigarh 21 cases pitals, and beds are ready. from Delhi and Tamil Nadu ported two deaths. Medical and health the prevailing circum- government has released and Ladakh 17. We have 20,000 beds ear- and one from Karnataka, it Meghalaya, Bihar, COVID-19 cases have minister Etala Rajender said stances of the day. Rs 308 crore for gram marked for the coronavirus added. Himachal Pradesh, Odisha gone up to 1,023 in Eleven cases have 553 patients are being While stating that panchayats and Rs 148 Rajasthan, followed by 987 been reported from the patients. Even if the patients Of the total 414 deaths, and Assam reported one fa- treated for the Covid-19 dis- crore to municipal corpora- in Madhya Pradesh, 766 in Andaman and Nicobar Is- increase to one lakh, the Maharashtra tops the tally tality each, according to the ease in the hospitals. Of this, tions for the month of April. health ministry data. Gujarat and 735 in Uttar lands. with 187 fatalities, followed Pradesh. by Madhya Pradesh at 53, However, a PTI tally of Meghalaya, Goa and Gujarat at 33, Delhi at 32 and figures reported by various Telengana has 647 Puducherry have reported cases, Andhra Pradesh 525 Covid dies only at 92ºC, Telengana at 18. states as on Wednesday seven COVID-19 infections and Kerala 388. each. Manipur and Tripura Tamil Nadu and evening showed at least have two cases each, while Andhra Pradesh have re- 12,220 COVID-19 cases The number of novel Mizoram and Arunachal ported 14 fatalities each. and 417 deaths. coronavirus cases has risen summer heat not enough Pradesh have reported a There has been a lag to 300 in Jammu and Kash- INDIAN CHRONICLE BUREAU Punjab has reported 13 mir, 279 in Karnataka, 231 case each. deaths while Karnataka in the Union Health Ministry in West Bengal and 205 in "State-wise distribution HYDERABAD, APRIL 16 have reported 12 deaths figures, compared to the Haryana. Punjab has re- is subject to further verifica- Latest research into and Uttar Pradesh has 11 number of deaths an- ported 186 infections so far. tion and reconciliation," the the Novel Coronavirus deaths. nounced by different states, which officials attribute to Bihar has reported 70 ministry said on its website. SARS CoV-2 has discovered West Bengal has reg- procedural delays in assign- cases, while Odisha has 60 The website also said and established that the vi- istered seven deaths. rus that is responsible for the ing the cases to individual coronavirus cases. Thirty- a COVID-19 patient from fast-spreading Covid-19 Four persons have lost states. seven people were infected Nagaland has been shifted disease, can survive up to a According to the to Assam. sizzling 92º Celsius of heat, just eight (8) degrees shy of 100-degree Celsius tem- No segregation on basis of faith at perature required to boil water. The study published Ahmedabad COVID-19 hospital: Doctor by scientists from the Aix- Marseille University in Ahmedabad: Professor the basis of faith. between treating doctors, in France focused on safety Dr GH Rathod, General Sur- admit patients in various The patients are admit- the best interest of the pa- wards in their best interest, aspects of healthcare per- geon and Medical Superin- ted and kept in different, re- tients.” The study published based on their medical con- sonnel handling samples of to speculation that made ity to replicate even after tendent of Civil Hospital, spective wards based on suspected Covid-19 posi- rounds on social media and last Saturday on bioRxiv, the samples were heated for an Asarwa, refuted reports The Medical Superin- dition, and not on faith,” he their male, female, children tendent further clarified that stressed. tive patients and steps even in some sections of pre-print server for biology, hour at 60 degrees Celsius. making the rounds in certain status, based on their medi- which has become popular news which had appeared needed to ensure the virus mainstream media every The authors said that sections of the media that cal condition, based on their As per the Union Min- becomes inactive before now and then that summer with regular research publi- patients were being segre- in some dailies had mis- istry of Health and Family only when samples were positive or negative suspect quoted him, “that we have confirmation tests can be heat in India will prevent fur- cations on Novel heated for 15 minutes at 92 gated on the basis of faith at corona status, based on Welfare on Wednesday Coronavirus, by Prof Remi made separate wards for conducted on samples. ther spread of the Covid-19 degrees Celsius did the vi- the newly created COVID- their condition (critical/seri- there are 695 COVID-19 virus. Charrel and others, said that 19 hospital. Muslims and Hindus. These cases in Gujarat. 30 deaths The findings puts paid rus die. ous) based on pre-existing reports in my name are false the virus did not lose its abil- Through a statement co-morbid condition like dia- have been reported in the and baseless and I con- State due to the infection so released on Wednesday, betes, hypertension, heart demn it.” Prof Rathod said that “pa- disease, kidney disease etc far.