Kadapa district reels under heatwave

Kadapa: Besides, coronavirus scare, people of the district have been facing hardships due to heat wave as the day temperature registers 46 degrees centigrade.

In emergencies, people are forced to move out by taking precautions like sporting a cap or covering their heads with cloth or carrying umbrellas. Elderly persons are not moving out of their houses fearing sunstroke or dehydration. Sellers of fruit, juices, butter milk, tender coconuts and ACs are making brisk business with the customers making a beeline to their outlets after the administration lifted the lockdown restrictions. Meanwhile the District Medical and Health Officer N Uma Sundari said that her department has already initiated precautionary measures. She said they have stored adequate stock of ORS sachets with all PHCs in the district.