<span style="color: #222222;">In Telangana, total number of reported COVID-19 cases exceeded 400 mark last evening. A 23-day old baby and 56-year old head constable are among the 40 people who tested positive for Corona virus during the last 24 hours.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">&nbsp;</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">State Medical and Health Department in its daily bulletin stated that total 404 COVID cases reported so far in the state. This include 11 people who succumbed to the virus and 45 people who recovered and discharged from hospitals. The Media bulletin further stated that there has been no evidence of community transmission of the virus in the state so far.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">&nbsp;</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The tracking, testing and treatment of the attendees of religious congregation in Delhi is still underway. Meanwhile, the measures to contain the virus have been taken up in all districts where positive cases were reported. People are strictly kept indoors in the containment zones which were identified around one to one and half kilometres around the place of COVID case reported. Meanwhile, State Government has converted a sports complex in Gachibowli into a 1500-beded Special Covid Hospital.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">&nbsp;</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Health Minister E Rajender informed that the hospital with all modern treatment facilities like ICU and ventilators will be brought into operation in a week or so. He also noted that all 22 private medical colleges in the state are being readied for treatment of COVID-19 patients with a capacity of total 12 thousand beds.</span><br />'' &nbsp;<br />
News On AIR | April 8, 2020 7:38 AM
Telangana: COVID-19 cases exceeds 400 mark in state