Rangareddy district heading towards 20K Covid cases

HYDERABAD: Rangareddy is inching towards 20,000 Covid-19 cases as the district administration has started mobile pooling testing in a big way. Six mobile testing labs have been pressed into service to collect samples, with each vehicle logging over 200 samples a day. The district recorded 131 cases, according to an official bulletin release on Saturday.
Though being part of GHMC and located in the suburbs of the city is one of the main reasons for the large number of cases, Rangareddy district’s rural areas too have recorded over 6,000 cases. During the lockdown, the interaction between Covid hotspots in the city like Jiaguda led to spread of the virus in rural areas of the district.
“People attending mass events, including funerals and birthdays, were the main reasons for initial spread and later to the surge. With effective testing and awareness programmes, we are able to bring down the virus spread , things are under control now,” Rangareddy district medical and health officer Dr KV Swarjya Lakshmi said. The mobile testing vehicles have been introduced in areas where more cases were reported like Jalpally, Saroonnagar, Mansurabad, Hafizpet, Serilingampally and Rajendranagar. They could collect over 1,000 samples a day, including ones for RT-PCR.
Apart from two area hospitals at Kondapur and Vanasthalipuram, admissions have now started at Telangana Institute of Medical Sciences (TIMS). “We have set up on e-call centre to tackle 2,000 patients a day who are under home isolation” another official said.