Sreenivas Janyala

The Navy has agreed to extend technical assistance to the state government in maintaining oxygen plants. It has also agreed to transport 25 cryogenic oxygen cylinders, which are coming to the state from Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia.

The medical oxygen tanker finally made it in time to the hospital with 400 Covid-19 patients, as the tired driver was traced parked next to a dhaba, sleeping.

The tanker, which was returning from Odisha after refilling, had gone off the radar on Thursday night after its on-board tracking system was switched off and its driver was not receiving calls.

On Tuesday, the state recorded 6,361 new cases and 51 Covid-related deaths. “Cases are coming down in the last 10 days and the curve is flattening,” Kumar said.

Deputy Commissioner of Police, Cyberabad, C Anasuya said that the purpose of this initiative is to ensure that children are kept safe until their parents recover.

Dismissing the allegations, Rajender told The Indian Express he will challenge the inquiry in court. ``These are all baseless allegations. I have not been given even one opportunity to defend myself. I will challenge these inquiries in court,'' he said.

The decision was taken after the AP High Court directed the state government to reconsider its decision to hold exams from May 5 while haring a public interest litigation (PIL) stating that nearly 17 lakh students would be exposed to Covid-19 virus if the exams are conducted.

Education Minister Adimulapu Suresh said that the examinations were scheduled to start from May 5, but due to a spike in Covid cases across the state, the High Court has suggested reconsidering the decision and the government had postponed the examinations.

On Friday, the CM had instructed Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar to get an inquiry done by the Medak District Collector on the complaints of encroachments of lands on the outskirts of Achampet in Masaipet Mandal in Medak district, get a comprehensive report and submit the same to him.

According to the clearance, drones can be operated within the visual line of sight (VLOS) range for a period of one year.

The Opposition TDP has demanded that the exams be postponed.

In AP, the government has prepared a 3-pronged strategy to tackle the surge, according to officials.  District collectors have been given powers to take over private hospitals in their districts to arrange for beds for Covid-19 patients.

All diagnostic facilities and hospitals offering CT scan services for suspected Covid cases will have to register themselves on a government website with all details of the patient and the uploaded CT scan image will serve as a basis for hospital admissions.

The state government is providing free treatment at all government hospitals, and the private hospitals taken over by the government due to the pandemic, irrespective of whether or not the individual is eligible under Arogyasri.

CMO officials said that Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao was shifted to Yashoda Hospital for follow-up tests after he quarantined himself for several days to check for any sign of lung infection.

While the mill owners in Telangana are offering free lunch and separate shed for accommodation as well as face masks and sanitisers, those in Andhra have started providing free rice and vegetables apart from accommodation with fans and air-coolers to their workers.

Chittoor with 1,00,254 cases and 918 deaths and East Godavari with 1,29,312 cases and 638 deaths are the worst affected, according to officials.

Ruling out the possibility of another lockdown, Chief Minister Y S Jaganmohan Reddy called for focussed testing and an increase in vaccination.

Unextinguished cigarettes and beedis, and deliberate setting of fires by honey collectors and beedi leaf cultivators have damaged thousands of hectares of forests.

Alarmed over the drastic increase, the Chief Minister cancelled his election tour saying there was a big risk of coronavirus spreading as his meetings would attract a large number of people.

Officials say that Maoists who take refuge in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana have not been indulging in violence.

This follows an FIR registered last month, naming 64 individuals including journalists, lawyers and civil rights activists.

As per the census survey of ponds, tanks, and lakes in the river basin, the water bodies in Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Uttarakhand, Bihar and West Bengal have dried up.

The Andhra Pradesh government has issued orders to expand the Visakhapatnam Metropolitan Development Authority (VMRDA). Why is this controversial?