The Telangana government will launch criminal prosecutions under the Epidemic Diseases Act against international passengers providing fake addresses at Hyderabad airport amid an Ebola high alert. The state will also deploy 24/7 language translators to plug screening loopholes.
Commissioner of Police V B Kamalasan Reddy, in a statement on Friday, said that despite the lockdown, some people were moving on the roads citing trivial reasons
In a video that went viral on social media platforms on Thursday, around 100 men and women, many without masks, were seen participating in a procession in the village.
With links forged between the virus, the vaccine and larger questions of national identity, we recognise the repetition of a certain history: of disease, colonial rule and power