[Breaking News] June 13 LIVE Updates: Latest Telangana And Andhra Pradesh News
Breaking News Today, 13 June 2020: The Hans India blog provides you the breaking news from India & the World. You can find all the latest news from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana as they break.
Coronavirus in Telangana: As many as eight people died due to Coronavirus and 253 were tested Covid-19 positive in Telangana till 9 pm on Saturday. With this increase, the total number of Coronavirus positive cases in the State has increased to 4,737 while death toll increased to 182.
According to the Media Bulletin issued by the Director of Public Health & Family Welfare, of 253 new cases, as many as 179 cases were registered from Greater Hyderabad, 24 from Sangareddy; 14 from Medchal; 11 from Ranga Reddy; 4 from Mahabubnagar; two cases each from Warangal Rural, Warangal Urban, Karimnagar, Nalgonda, Mulugu, Sircilla and Mancherial and one case each from Siddipet, Khammam, Medak, Nizamabad, Nagarkurnool, Kamareddy and Jagityal.
BJP suspended its leader KV Lakshmipathi Raja as he deliberately disobeyed the party orders and participated in media debates.
Ex-CM and TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu enquired about the health condition of party MLA Kinjarapu Atchannaidu at GGH, Guntur on Saturday. He interacted with the doctors there.
Delhi HC directs Centre, AAP govt to increase availability of beds Taking note of the "gravity" of the coronavirus situation in the National Capital.
The Delhi High Court has directed the AAP government and the Centre to increase the number of beds and ventilators for COVID-19 patients. The court also said it expects all hospitals in the National Capital to correctly upload the availability of real-time bed capacity data so that the public may know in advance where to go if they are suffering from COVID-19.
Coronavirus In Telangana: As many as 19 people tested positive for coronavirus after attending the funeral of a 55-year-old woman in Zaheerabad of Sangareddy district. Read Full Story
Telangana News: Jain monk Vardhamana Mahavir's statue was unearthed at Kotlanarasimhulapalli of Gangadhara Mandal in Karimnagar district on Saturday. Read Full Story
Andhra Pradesh News: Jail authorities refuse permission to TDP President N Chandrababu Naidu to meet K Atchannaidu who was arrested yesterday and undergoing treatment in GGH Guntur hospital. The quoted Corona as the reason and said they should get magistrates permission.
Cannot flout ICMR guidelines to increase COVID-19 testing in Delhi, says health minister
Delhi health minister Satyendar Jain on Saturday said that the Delhi government cannot violate the ICMR guidelines "that state certain conditions" prerequisite for conducting COVID-19 tests. Jain's comments come a day after the Supreme Court slammed the Delhi government for drop-in COVID-19 testing from 7,000 to 5,000 amid rising coronavirus cases in the National Capital. "If you want the number of tests conducted for COVID-19 to increase, then ask ICMR to change its guidelines. We cannot flout ICMR guidelines that state certain conditions which are prerequisite for tests.”
Andhra Pradesh News: Former TDP MLA Chintamaneni Prabhakar who was taken into custody on Friday when he was on his way to meet K Atchannaidu who was being taken to Vijayawada yesterday. Even after Atchannaidu crossed the district. Around midnight FIR was filed and covid tests were conducted. Now he has been shifted to Eluru jail.
Telangana News: The Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad (JNTUH) has postponed UG/PG semester exams on Friday after the Telangana government announced of holding a review meeting on the conduct of exams next week. Read Full Story