Telangana: Techie who returned from Chennai tests positive for Covid-19

Ch Sushil Rao / TNN / Updated: Jun 15, 2020, 12:47 IST

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A 35-year-old software employee who returned to his village in Telangana from Chennai where he was employed has tested positive for Covid-19. Health authorities in Malkapur village of Veenavanka mandal in Huzurabad in Karimnagar have taken up a door-to-door health survey after the software employee tested positive.

Telangana: Techie who returned from Chennai tests positive for Covid-19

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HYDERABAD: A 35-year-old software employee who returned to his village in Telangana from Chennai where he was employed has tested positive for Covid-19. Health authorities in Malkapur village of Veenavanka mandal in Huzurabad in Karimnagar have taken up a door-to-door health survey after the software employee tested positive.
On his return to Hyderabad from Chennai, he underwent thermal screening and was sent home asking that he be in home quarantine.

In two days, he developed fever and then tested positive for Covid-19. He and his three other family members have been sent to an isolation centre by the authorities.
In Gandhinagar of Huzurabad, a couple and another person close to them has tested positive. The local health authorities have sent the man to Gandhi hospital in Secunderabad and the wife to a isolation centre in Karimnagar. Their 61 primary contacts have been identified and they have been placed under home quarantine. Local health authorities took up screening in the locality and did thermal screening of 838 residents in 225 houses.
A 26-year-old woman from Chittapur village in Mallapur of Korutla tested positive after she paid a visit to Hyderabad for a gall bladder problem check-up. She had visited a private hospital on June 8. She and all her primary contacts have been placed under home quarantine. Screening is also being taken up in the village.

Meanwhile, in Ranga Reddy district authorities have increased surveillance as cases are increasing in different localities. The cases have increased after lockdown relaxations as the figures show. While there were 300 positive cases up to June 2, after that the number increased to 473 by June 14. That is, in just 12 days as many as 173 cases were reported.
Along with five districts, chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Sunday announced that even in Ranga Reddy district Covid-19 tests would be conducted.
In all, 50,000 tests are planned in 30 assembly constituencies in the next 10 days.

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Ch Sushil Rao

Sushil Rao is Editor-Special Reports, at The Times of India, Hyderabad. He began his journalism career at the age of 20 in 1988. He is a gold medalist in journalism from the Department of Communication and Journalism, Arts College, Osmania University, Hyderabad from where he did his post-graduation from. He has been with The Times of India’s Hyderabad edition since its launch in 2000. He has also done an introductory course in film studies from the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, and also from the Central University of Kerala equipping himself with the knowledge of filmmaking for film criticism. He has authored four books. In his career spanning 34 years, he has worked for five newspapers and has also done television reporting. He was also a web journalist during internet’s infancy in the mid 1990s in India. He covers defence, politics, diaspora, innovation, administration, the film industry, Hyderabad city and Telangana state, and human interest stories. He is also a podcaster, blogger, does video reporting and makes documentaries.

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