Hyderabad lockdown news: Today's updates from your city

Traffic police checking motorists for a valid reason for them to be out of their homes at Banjara hills
Amid prevalent chaos and uncertainty over access to the essential services and commodities during the lockdown, we bring you the latest updates from your city.
* With the workfrom-home (WFH) feature set to become the new normal, the realty sector has to brace itself for disruption in two areas – the office space, with fewer work areas, and the residential segment, where new dedicated workspaces need to be carved out, says Vishal Garg, a professor and Head of the Center for IT in Building Science at International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIIT-Hyderabad) and Milind Mantravadi, an alumnus of the institute.

Sharing insights on the ‘new normal’, they said that to facilitate a seamless experience of working from home, the inclusion of a dedicated area at home is necessary.
* Update at 9.29am | Death toll due to Covid-19 rises to 1,568 in India; cases climb to 46,433: Union health ministry
*Telangana government decided late on Monday evening to send migrant workers back to their home states.
*Telangana government has asked the South Central Railway (SCR) to run 40 special trains daily for a week from Tuesday. Telangana government will be paying the Railways for running the trains for the time being.
*The special trains will be run from various places such as Hyderabad, Khammam, Damarcherla and Ramagundam to Bihar, Odisha, Jharkhand, West Bengal and other states,” chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao announced.
*Construction work picks up pace with 30% workers reporting to duty in Hyderabad
*On the orders of Telangana government, police of all three city commissionerates on Monday started enumerating migrant workers to send those wish to go home in special trains.
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