Amid prevalent chaos and uncertainty over access to the essential services and commodities during the lockdown, we bring you the latest updates from Hyderabad.
*11:18am Telangana state cabinet to meet on April 19 on lockdown exemptions
* Expressing concern over the status of poor women, old people, children, and the stranded migrant labourers, the Telangana high court on Wednesday sought to know from the state within five days whether it was able to reach the lakhs of unreached poor with rice, money and other essentials.
*10:17am Andhra Pradesh reports nine new coronavirus cases; tally rises to 534 in the state
* Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) is catching migrant workers heading towards their hometowns and shifting them to special camps set up for workers and night shelters. The workers who live in the city were sent back to their houses.
* An app developed by a city-based software engineer will help in providing free food supplies to migrant workers, daily wagers and poor people in two hours. All one should do is download the app, identify poor people in the locality who need food supplies and send the geographical location of the family.
* Crammed inside makeshift sheds along the upscale IT corridor of Hyderabad, the thousands of migrant labourers from West Bengal, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, have only one desire – to return home to their families as soon as possible. If some are anxious about their ageing parents, others are worried about their wives and young children who, they say, are struggling to make ends meet.
* The Telangana government has identified about 3.35 lakh migrant labourers for supply of 12kg free rice and ₹500 per person cash scheme, however, activists say that the numbers are far more than what the government has identified. They claim that there are about 6 lakh such workers in the state and a majority of them do not have ration cards.
* Taking a leaf from other states, Telangana has decided to treat Covid-19 patients with convalescent plasma therapy and are hoping for a quick nod from the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) for a clinical trial.
* Covid-19 patient was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly attacking a doctor on coronavirus duty at Gandhi Hospital recently. As he is recuperating at another hospital, police produced the 23-year-old patient and his brother before a court through video conference. The judge remanded them in judicial custody, but the patient would be kept at the hospital itself till he recovers. His brother will be sent for isolation in the prisoner’s ward at Gandhi Hospital.
* Centre’s list of hotspots (red zones) and non-hotspots for Covid-19 cases has left officials in Telangana baffled. State officials said the exercise defied logic as the districts with large number of coronavirus positive cases Telangana did not figure in the central list of red zones, while those with relatively less cases did.
*11:18am Telangana state cabinet to meet on April 19 on lockdown exemptions
* Expressing concern over the status of poor women, old people, children, and the stranded migrant labourers, the Telangana high court on Wednesday sought to know from the state within five days whether it was able to reach the lakhs of unreached poor with rice, money and other essentials.
*10:17am Andhra Pradesh reports nine new coronavirus cases; tally rises to 534 in the state
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* An app developed by a city-based software engineer will help in providing free food supplies to migrant workers, daily wagers and poor people in two hours. All one should do is download the app, identify poor people in the locality who need food supplies and send the geographical location of the family.
* Crammed inside makeshift sheds along the upscale IT corridor of Hyderabad, the thousands of migrant labourers from West Bengal, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, have only one desire – to return home to their families as soon as possible. If some are anxious about their ageing parents, others are worried about their wives and young children who, they say, are struggling to make ends meet.
* The Telangana government has identified about 3.35 lakh migrant labourers for supply of 12kg free rice and ₹500 per person cash scheme, however, activists say that the numbers are far more than what the government has identified. They claim that there are about 6 lakh such workers in the state and a majority of them do not have ration cards.
* Taking a leaf from other states, Telangana has decided to treat Covid-19 patients with convalescent plasma therapy and are hoping for a quick nod from the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) for a clinical trial.
* Covid-19 patient was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly attacking a doctor on coronavirus duty at Gandhi Hospital recently. As he is recuperating at another hospital, police produced the 23-year-old patient and his brother before a court through video conference. The judge remanded them in judicial custody, but the patient would be kept at the hospital itself till he recovers. His brother will be sent for isolation in the prisoner’s ward at Gandhi Hospital.
* Centre’s list of hotspots (red zones) and non-hotspots for Covid-19 cases has left officials in Telangana baffled. State officials said the exercise defied logic as the districts with large number of coronavirus positive cases Telangana did not figure in the central list of red zones, while those with relatively less cases did.
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