Andhra Pradesh: Officials and politicos panic after a Tahsildar contracts coronavirus in Anantapur district

TIRUPATI: Officials of the district administration and elected representatives in Anantapur district were alarmed after a Tahsildar contracted the novel coronavirs and was admitted to the state government's coronavirus hospital in the district on Tuesday.
District collector Gandham Chandrudu who confirmed that a Tahsildar working in Anantapur district tested positive for the novel coronavirus on Tuesday, added that the official was being treated at the district coronavirus hospital at present.
The Tahsildar who is a resident of Hindupur town, absented himself from official duties after he fell sick a few days ago. As he exhibited coronavirus symptoms, officials collected his swab samples and sent them for medical examinations, and the test results which came on Tuesday, confirmed that he had contracted the novel coronavirus.
Officials of the district administration have now initiated the process of identifying all those government staffers as well as politicos who came in contact with the Tahsildar who tested positive for the novel coronavirus. Sources said that the Tahsildar had recently attended a coronavirus review meet organized by Madakasira MLA M Thippeswamy. All those who came in contact with the Tahsildar will now be moved to a state government quarantine facility and placed under observation.
Physician working at Anantapur GGH tests positive for coronavirus.
Meanwhile, yet another physician working at the government general hospital at Anantapur tested positive for the novel coronavirus on Tuesday. He is the 6th victim from the medical fraternity at the Anantapur GGH to contract coronavirus as five others including two doctors and three paramedic staff working were the first victims to have contracted the novel virus.
It may be recalled that two doctors and three paramedic staff who treated a 58 year old coronavirus patient who died at the Anantapur GGH on April 4, tested positive for the novel coronavirus last week. In addition to them, two of the family members of the deceased, also tested positive for coronavirus.
Though the top brass of the district administration and the medical and health department have been maintaining that all is well under control, the fact that six from the medical fraternity treating coronavirus patients at the Anantapur GGH have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, is a cause of some serious concern for the people of Anantapur district, where 15 active coronavirus cases and 2 deaths have been reported officially so far.