Serpentine queues outside COVID test centres, 100s turned away daily
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Crowds increase by the day, testing capacity remains the same
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Crowds increase by the day, testing capacity remains the same
At ten past 5 a.m. on Wednesday, Chintal resident Venkatesh reached State-run Nature Cure Hospital in Begumpet to get a COVID test done. He had to wait behind more than 100 people, only to get turned away at 8 a.m. This was the second time Mr. Venkatesh was turned away, as people made a queue before 4 a.m. to get the tokens, which start at 7.30 a.m.
A war room attends COVID emergency calls
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April 27, 2021 23:58 IST
First-of-its-kind and only-run COVID control room by Cyberabad police takes over 200 calls from the twin cities every day
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First-of-its-kind and only-run COVID control room by Cyberabad police takes over 200 calls from the twin cities every day
At 1.40 p.m. on Tuesday, a volunteer at Cyberabad COVID control room received a call for an ambulance to shift a 66-year-old COVID patient to a hospital.
The ambulance reached the patient by 1.55 p.m., and she was shifted to State-run Nature Cure Hospital, Begumpet, in another 30 minutes.
In another emergency, an elderly couple was shifted to a private hospital at Somajiguda from their residence in Old Bhoiguda in less than one hour on Tuesday afternoon. Both of them, aged 66 and 58 years, got infected with the virus and were experiencing breathlessness when the control room received the emergency call at 3.02 p.m.