Telangana minister Mohammed Mahmood Ali, 2 kin test positive for Covid-19

HYDERABAD: Telangana home minister Mohammed Mahmood Ali and two other family members tested positive for Covid-19 and are undergoing treatment at a corporate hospital.
Mahmood Ali is the first minister in the K Chandrasekhar Rao-led government to have contracted the virus.
Health department sources said the minister’s son and grandson, in his early twenties, were all rushed to the same hospital in Jubilee Hills after swab samples results revealed both had tested positive for novel coronavirus.
So far three legislators of the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) have tested positive for the novel coronavirus and are undergoing treatment.
While the home minister’s health is currently stable, he was rushed to the hospital late on Sunday night with symptoms of fever, breathlessness, cough, and cold.
Last week, five of his gunman had tested positive, following which they were put on home quarantine.
But the home minister, instead of quarantining himself at home, had attended a series of government programmes, including the state’s flagship haritha haram (tree plantation) programme with top police officials at the Goshamahal police stadium.
Among other top cops, DGP Telangana M Mahender Reddy and city commissioner Anjani Kumar were present at the event.
With the minister now testing positive, a massive exercise of contact tracing among the cops have begun.
Three MLAs from Jangaon, Nizamabad Urban and Nizamabad had tested positive for the virus earlier