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Amaravati: Coronavirus disease is spreading at fast pace in Andhra Pradesh with 14,502 persons testing positive out of 40,266 samples collected in the past 24 hours. On Sunday, two persons in West Godavari district, and one each in Visakhapatnam, Guntur, Kurnool, Nellore and Srikakulam districts died of Covid. There were at present 93,305 active cases […]

Hyderabad: It could be just a matter of time before Covid-19 positive cases due to Omicron emerge in Telangana, warn State public health officials, who said on Thursday that a third wave triggered by the new variant was possible in January or February if people continue to pay scant regard for Covid-appropriate behaviour and vaccination. […]

Hyderabad: Palliative care facilities for patients suffering from end-stage diseases like cancer at all district hospitals in Telangana will be a reality in the coming months. After establishing 18 free palliative care centres, State Health Department in the coming months will establish 10 more, which will effectively cover the entire State. As part of the […]

Hyderabad: The healthy pace of Covid vaccination drive in Telangana has continued with health department administering doses to 1,75,864 individuals between Tuesday and Wednesday. Out of these, a total of 1,37,656 received the first dose while 38,208 persons have received the second dose of Covid vaccine, according to the state vaccine bulletin on Thursday. Overall, […]

Hyderabad: The State government’s decision to adopt a unique two-pronged Covid vaccination strategy in Telangana has started to pay off with Health Department in collaboration with private hospitals managing to vaccinate over 20 lakh eligible individuals in the last five days. The vaccine strategy in Telangana has also enabled to contain spread of Covid infection, […]

The drive is jointly being held by the GHMC, Health Department and the SCB.

132 plants being set up besides readying 28,000 oxygen beds to tackle the possible Covid third wave

Health department cautioned people to follow Covid appropriate behaviour during the Bonalu and Bakrid festivals

The massive vaccination drive was held successfully across the city for the fourth consecutive day on Monday

In a notification, the Director of Public Health (DPH) Dr G Srinivasa Rao directed all government and private health facilities to follow guidelines for screening, diagnosis and management of Mucormycosis

Unlike many other Indian States, which allow individuals from other States to enter only if they have RT-PCR negative test, Telangana has embraced all critical Covid cases and have helped them to recover

Collector urged the citizens who were suffering from fever to take medicines and to practice physical distance

GHMC team referred about 19,090 persons to Basthi Dawakhanas and Urban Primary Health Centres (UPHCs) for undergoing Covid tests

“The State Health department has not given any recommendations for lockdown, as claimed in social media posts. All such claims are fake," Dr G Srinivasa Rao said

Collection of higher rates would attract action, the Health department warned and also directed to register all CT scan Covid positive cases online

The district registered the ever largest spike of the positive cases by seeing 398 cases when swabs of suspected 2,434 patients belonging to several parts of the district were examined

The health department conducted 79, 027 Covid rapid antigen tests and results of another 2975 samples are awaited.

Following the spurt in the number of cases in the locality, district medical and health department officials swung into action and were trying to trace out the primary contacts

The health department bought CT Scan at a cost of Rs 2.15 crore and created the 20 bed ICU at a cost of Rs 2.40 crore

The medical and health department has identified 11 strategic locations for setting up medical camps with required staff, 108 ambulances and more importantly Covid kits