COVID testing, jab drive scaled up
The Hindu
Special focus on border mandals and industrial belt of the district
The fresh surge in coronavirus cases in parts of neighbouring Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh in the last few days prompted the district administration to scale up COVID-19 testing and vaccination drive in the district to prevent the spread. Special focus has been laid on the border mandals and the industrial belt of the district frequented by a large number of trucks carrying various goods, industrial raw materials and products from different States, sources said. Collector M.V. Reddy has instructed mandal level officials to ensure strict adherence of the COVID-19 safety protocols by industries, function halls and all other business establishments and invoke the provisions of the Epidemic Disease Act, 1897, against the violators.
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