TRS MLA Muthireddy tested positive for coronavirus

The Telangana rank and file went into a tizzy after TRS Jangaon MLA Muthireddy Yadagiri Reddy was tested positive for coronavirus.

The news is giving TRS leaders the jitters. He is the first big political figure in the TRS to have contracted the virus in the Telangana state although legislators in other states were tested positive for Covid-19.

The TRS leader was admitted in Yashoda Hospital. It is learnt that Muthireddy Yadagiri Reddy had attended a high-level meeting on regulated cropping pattern at Pragati Bhavan addressed by Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao. Ministers, District Collectors, District Agriculture Officials and district representatives of Rythu Bandhu Samithi were invited to attend the meeting.

Meanwhile, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) had recently conducted rapid anti-bodies tests in three districts of Telangana, including Jangaon, Kamareddy and Nalgonda to assess spread of coronavirus in general public.

On Friday, Telangana reported 164 new cases of corona, taking the state tally to 4,484. What is more worrisome is that the state has been reporting around 10 to 5 deaths each day. On Friday, the state reported nine deaths taking the total number of fatalities to 174.

Earlier in the day, GHMC Mayor Bonthu Rammohan underwent was tested negative for corona. The tests were conducted after an attender in Mayor Bonthu Rammohan’s peshi was tested positive. Following this, the municipal administration has decided to shut down the peshi. All the employees were asked to go home. The Mayor’s office on the seventh floor has been sanitised. Further, all the employees in the GHMC office were asked to undergo corona tests. Staff members have been asked to remain in home quarantine and work from home. Samples of those who came in direct contact with the staff member are being collected and results are awaited.

Earlier, a CMO staffer working in the Metro Rail Bhavan was tested positive for the infection. Recently, the employee’s son who visited Maharashtra was tested positive for coronavirus. It is learnt that the employee has contracted the virus from his son. The CMO went into a tizzy after the employee contracted the virus. Following this, the CMO employees were asked not to report to work. The government has sanitised the CMO. Dr Rajiv Sharma, Chief Advisor to Government of Telangana as well as the Chairman of Telangana State Pollution Control Board, has been directed to oversee the sanitisation efforts.