Telangana records 33 positive for COVID-19 , 99 suspects await medical reports, Situation alarming in Karimnagar

Telangana:Hyderabad: March 23: The Government of Telangana has decided to come down heavily on those defying the lockdown imposed in the State till March 31 to check the spread of coronavirus. State DGP Mahender Reddy had announced that  there would be 100 pc curfew dusk to dawn  between (7 p.m. and 6 a.m.). The state of affairs were such that District collector of Sangreddy and Sircilla had to come on streets to haul up those who violated the curfew. About 40 autos in Sangareddy were seized by police and many more in Sircilla. A ruling party leader found arguing with collector for defying the curfew was also booked for violations.

Meanwhile, it is learnt that few air passengers have invented a new way to  cheat thermal scanners. A  few passengers who returned are  taking paracetamol to suppress fever so that their body temperature could not be detected during thermal screening at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA), Shamshabad. A senior  police officer  at airport have confirmed that a few air passengers took the medicines so as to normalise the temperature consequently avoiding the detection of temperature by thermal readers.

Telangana now have confirmed 33 cases of COVID-19 and 99 suspects still awaiting their reports .A whopping 70 are suspects from Karimnagar alone.In the wake of Karimnagar town reporting its first COVID-19 positive case, the district administration, in association with the police, had declared some of the residential areas where the Indonesians had moved extensively and infected locals as ‘Red Zones’ and cordoned off the localities by deploying police forces.

Residents in the Red Zones were strictly instructed not to come out of their houses and would be arrested if they flouted orders.

The Mukarampura locality right from the main gate of the Collectorate, Ajmatheya Mosque area, Women’s College, Kashmirgadda, Saikrishna Theatre, area opposite Prathima Multiplex to the Mosque near Indira Chowk has been declared a ‘Red Zone’ .

Collector K. Shashanka said the COVID-19 situation was alarming in Karimnagar town following the outbreak of virus among the people who moved very closely with the 10 Indonesians, who toured the town recently and tested positive. “Among them, one person tested positive and was shifted to Hyderabad’s Gandhi Hospital,” he said.