269 infected: Telangana records highest single-day surge

HYDERABAD: A top official leading the Covid-19 fightback in one of the key government hospitals in Telangana tested positive on Wednesday, even as state reported the highest single-day surge of 269 cases.
While one more person died, raising the toll to 192, the official at the District hospital King Koti, which is a Covid-19 treatment and testing centre is among many who tested positive on Wednesday. The hospital has been playing a key role in Covid-19 management and is currently housing nearly 200 patients, while hundreds turn up each day for testing.

“Since King Koti hospital has a high influx of suspected patients, the risk exposure is high here. While Gandhi hospital admits only confirmed positive Covid-19 patients, here we have patients walk in every day asking for tests and many are put up in isolation too,” said a source at the hospital, adding that over 25 of the colleagues have been put in quarantine.
Three doctors at the Government Nature Cure hospital and Government Ayurvedic hospital have tested positive taking the total count of healthcare workers to have tested positive over the last two weeks to around 200.
The Covid-19 count stands at 5,675 and the number of samples tested during the pandemic stand at 45,911.