Telangana, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh coronavirus LIVE updates: Hyderabad Metro Rail to resume operations from Sept 7

Telangana, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Coronavirus News Live Updates: While Telangana has over 1.30 lakh infections and 846 deaths, in Andhra Pradesh nearly 4.5 people have contracted the virus and 4053 have succumbed to the illness




Telangana, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Coronavirus Live Updates: The Telangana government has permitted operation of metro rail services here in a ‘graded manner’ from September 7. The announcement comes after the Centre allowed the metro services to resume operations across the country, as part of Unlock-4 guidelines.

Amid the uptick in infections, Telangana reported 2,892 cases, taking the infections in the state to 1.30 lakh, a health bulletin released this morning said. With 10 deaths reported in the last 24 hours, casualties in the state have risen to 846.

Maintaining its steady streak for the seventh consecutive day, Andhra Pradesh reported 10,368 fresh cases of Covid-19, pushing its overall tally further up to 4.45 lakh on Tuesday. In the 24 hours ending 9 am on Tuesday, 10,368 new positive cases were detected from 59,834 tests while 9,350 patients got cured and 84 more succumbed, the latest bulletin said. The states Covid-19 chart now showed 4,45,139 total cases, 3,39,876 recoveries and 4,053 deaths.

While Telangana has over 1.30 lakh infections and 846 deaths, in Andhra Pradesh nearly 4.5 people have contracted the virus and 4053 have succumbed to the illness. Follow LIVE updates from Hyderabad

The Telangana government has permitted operation of metro rail services here in a ‘graded manner’ from September 7. The announcement comes after the Centre allowed the metro services to resume operations across the country, as part of Unlock-4 guidelines. “Managing Directors of all Indian metros held a video conference on Tuesday (September 1) to recommend protocols for necessary precautions and safety measures.

The protocols will be decided in a day or two by the ministry of housing and urban affairs, government of India with the approval of the Home ministry,” Hyderabad Metro Rail Ltd MD, N V S Reddy said in a statement on Tuesday night. (PTI)

Andhra Pradesh has the second-highest caseload in the country

A gulf migrant who was stranded in Dubai for the last 16 years as he did not have a passport was finally reunited with his family in Telangana on Tuesday. A hefty fine of 1.46 lakh Dirhams (approximately Rs 29 lakh) was waived off by the UAE administration given its ongoing amnesty scheme launched in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

After arriving in Hyderabad on late Monday night, the 48-year-old was welcomed by E Chittibabu, the officer-in-charge of the state’s NRI cell. Considering his physical and emotional situation, and on request of family members, he was permitted ‘home quarantine’. Along with wife Rajavva and other family members, Yellaiah reached his native village on Tuesday. Yellaiah’s daughter, a new-born when he had left for the Gulf, is now a mother herself.

Telangana continued to record an increase in coronavirus cases with 2,892 fresh infections and 10 more deaths, taking the tally in the state to 1.30 lakh. Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) accounted for the most number of cases with 477, followed by Rangareddy 234, Medchal Malkajgiri 192, Nalgonda 174 and Karimnagar 152 districts, a government bulletin said on Wednesday, providing data as of 8 pm on September 1. As many as 59,421 samples were tested on September 1. Cumulatively, 14.83 lakh samples have been tested. The samples tested per million population was 39,952, the bulletin said. The case fatality rate in the state was 0.64 per cent, while it was 1.76 per cent at the national level.

Five months after its services were suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic-induced-lockdown, Hyderabad Metro will resume its operations from September 7.

In line with the Centre’s unlock-4 guidelines, Telangana Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar has issued orders permitting operations of the world’s largest metro project in PPP mode in a “graded manner”. Hyderabad Metro Rail Limited’s (HMRL) managing director NVS Reddy said the protocols will be worked out in a day or two. “Enough care will be taken to follow proper sanitisation, maintain social distancing in metro trains & stations, enough ventilation, pumping more fresh air into trains, improving air conditioning mechanism, etc,” he said.

Andhra Pradesh is set to introduce the Agriculture Electricity Cash Transfer Scheme from the 2021-22 financial year that will virtually do away with the free power supply to the farm sector, though the government maintained that it will foot the entire bill amounting to about Rs 8,400 crore per annum. The government will install smart meters to all agricultural power connections as part of the Centre-suggested reforms that it agreed to implement for a two per cent hike in FRBM Act borrowing limit that will entail an additional loan of about Rs 20,000 crore to the state during the current fiscal, highly-placed official sources said. The state government will have to spend an estimated Rs 1,500 crore to install smart meters to the agriculture power connections. The free power to the farm sector was introduced by late Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy in May 2004 and subsequent governments continued it.

After five days of more than 75,000 detections of new infections, Monday saw a significant drop in the daily numbers. Less than 70,000 new cases were discovered in the country, and once again this looks like a result of the usual dip in testing numbers on Sunday. Almost every state that was reporting very high numbers in the last five days, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, and Delhi, saw their numbers going down.

 

 

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