KCR Covid Positive After Super-Spreader Poll Rally, Night Curfew In State

Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao had reported mild symptoms including fever and body ache, after which a rapid antigen test and then an RT-PCR test confirmed that he was Covid positive.

Night curfew was ordered in Telangana till April 30 as Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao tested positive for Covid. It is suspected that he contracted the infection during a public meeting held on the eve of bypoll to Nagarjunasagar assembly constituency. Besides the Chief Minister, 60 others who attended the meeting tested positive. Those who were infected include the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi's candidate Nomula Bhagat and his family, and several other political leaders. An estimated 1 lakh people are said to have attended the meeting addressed by the Chief Minister at Halia on April 14, ahead of the bypoll held on April 17. The Chief Minister had reported mild symptoms including fever and body ache, after which a rapid antigen test and then an RT-PCR test confirmed that he was Covid positive.