49 fresh cases of COVID-19 in Telangana on single day

Hyderabad, Apr 8 () Fortynine fresh cases of COVID-19 have been reported in Telangana on Wednesday, taking thetotal number of positive cases in the state cumulatively to453.

The number of active cases in the state was 397 as 45people have been discharged from hospitals after recovery,state Health Minister E Rajender told reporters.

No death occurred due to the virus on Wednesday andthe number of deceased remained at 11, he said.

Rajender said none in the 397 was on ventilator supportor in ICU of hospitals. They would be discharged fromhospitals after they complete the 14-day period and testnegative for the virus, he said.

Till date, there was no evidence of communitytransmission of the virus in Telangana, a media bulletin onCOVID-19 said.

Rajender said the returnees from a religiouscongregation in Delhi who tested negative were being sent tohome quarantine till April 21. They would be supervised twicea day by personnel of health department and police, he said.

The residents of houses of Delhi congregationreturnees, who tested negative, would be advised homequarantine till April 28, he said.

He said 3,157 people, who were put in 167 quarantinecentres, were being sent home after medical checks bydoctors, he said.

Tests have been conducted during the last four-fivedays and only 535 samples were now left with the authorities,he said. With the testing of samplesn already over, therewould only be a few samples reporting for tests, he said.

Consequently, the numbers may not see an increasesimilar to Wednesdays numbers (49 fresh cases), he said.

Quoting Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao that thegovernment should continue to be alert though the number ofcases related to the Delhi religious congregation was on thewane, Rajender said the government was procuring personalprotection equipment (PPE) kits and N-95 masks.

Meanwhile, as part of measuresto combat COVID-19spread, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation(GHMC)has set up 12 containment clusters in different areasof the city where 89 positive cases of the virus have beenregistered, its Commissioner D S Lokesh Kumar said. SJRNVG NVG