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May 02, 2021, 12:44 IST Public health officials have asked people of Telangana not to unnecessarily rush for Covid tests if they don t have symptoms. They explained that as a large number of panic stricken healthy individuals were flocking to PHCs for testing, the deserving candidates who need to be tested are unable to avail the facility. The medical officers were issued orders to ensure persons with symptoms get access to testing kits and make sure they screen the individuals for symptoms of Covid-19 before conducting Rapid Antigen Tests (RAT). Also Read: Officials pointed out instances where individuals got tested thrice in just one week. They stated that people must also realise that they are exposing themselves to infections by turning up in large numbers at the testing centres. ....
Updated Apr 16, 2021 | 10:13 IST The woman s husband was reportedly indifferent to her suffering while her two sons feared that they would contract the virus from her. Telangana woman shunned by family after testing positive for coronavirus dies [Representative image] | Photo Credit: iStock Images Key Highlights The woman tested positive for coronavirus infection on April 8, following which her landlord did not let her enter the house. She spent two days outside her rented house and then moved to an agriculture market. She died at a COVID-19 isolation facility on Wednesday. Hyderabad: Is the virus fear killing the essence of being human? In an apathetic incident in Telangana’s Karimnagar district, a 50-year-old woman was shunned by her family after her COVID-19 test report came in positive a week ago. On Wednesday, she breathed her last at a COVID-19 isolation centre, where civic body officials had admitted her f ....
Apart from upscaling testing and surveillance, the state health department has also increased vaccination centres and has ramped up vaccination in the recent days. HYDERABAD: The middle and upper middle-class category of residents are more prone to contracting the virus during the ongoing second wave. Currently, around 5,000 patients are admitted at various private and corporate hospitals in the state, especially in and around the city, pushing bed availability to the brink. “During the first wave, majority of the lower-class population already got affected. In the current wave, we are seeing more of middle-class and above getting affected. This is the reason we are seeing a large number of admissions in the private hospitals. Currently around 2,000 patients are admitted in government hospitals in the state while nearly 5,000 patients are in private hospitals,” said Dr G Srinivasa Rao, director of public health, Telangana. ....