Telangana logs 134 new COVID-19 cases, Omicron tally at 20
The Hindu
One flyer from at-risk country tests positive for coronavirus
One more international passenger who arrived at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA), Shamshabad, from an ‘at-risk’ country on Sunday was detected with COVID-19. Samples collected from the flyer have been sent for genome sequencing. Altogether, sequencing results of seven samples were awaited.
Till Sunday night, 20 Omicron cases had been detected in Telangana. The figure does not include a seven-year-old boy in transit who left for Kolkata, West Bengal.
The State recorded 134 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, taking the total infections to 6,79,564. The highest number of infections (82) were detected in the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation region. One more COVID patient died.
The election authorities are gearing up for the counting of votes cast in the simultaneous elections to Lok Sabha and Assembly seats in Andhra Pradesh, scheduled to be held on June 4. The Collectors and Election Officers of Visakhapatnam, Anakapalli and Alluri Sitharama Raju (ASR) districts said on May 23 (Thursday) that their teams were ready for the counting of votes.
Responding to the prolonged water scarcity, the residents of the area took to the streets in protest on Wednesday. The protest, which drew attention to their plight, stopped only after the intervention of the police. It was not until 1.30 p.m. that a 4000-litre tanker was finally delivered by BWSSB, providing relief to the water-starved residents.