This story is from July 7, 2020

Telangana records 1,831 new cases, 11 deaths

Telangana on Monday reported 11 Covid-19 deaths, the second-highest single-day toll since the outbreak, and 1,831 new cases. Meanwhile, governor Tamilisai Soundararajan said she will meet private hospital owners on Tuesday to thrash out charges of excessive billings for Covid-19 treatment.
Telangana records 1,831 new cases, 11 deaths
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HYDERABAD: Telangana on Monday reported 11 Covid-19 deaths, the second-highest single-day toll since the outbreak, and 1,831 new cases. Meanwhile, governor Tamilisai Soundararajan said she will meet private hospital owners on Tuesday to thrash out charges of excessive billings for Covid-19 treatment.
Tweeting about the meeting, Soundararajan said she wants to look at bills and availability of beds in private facilities, among other issues.
Several people responded to her tweet saying that private hospitals are charging extra and a few even wanted her to advise the government to impose another lockdown as the Covid-19 cases are surge across the city.
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The coronavirus toll rose to 306, while the overall caseload jumped to 25,733, the sixth-highest among all states. As many as 2,078 people were released from various hospitals, taking the recoveries to 14,781.
The government on Monday decided to recruit doctors and nurses at the hospital levels, instead of doing it through centralized notification to save time. “The decision was taken as the government is not getting a good response from a unified centralized notification. We have also decided to conduct antigen tests from now on,” said an official after a review meeting held on the number of more kits to be obtained.
“All the people who do not have symptoms should be sent for home isolation with care. All the hospitals should make sure that required essentials are adequate,” health minister Eatala Rajender said, as he directed district government hospital superintendents to be available in district centres only.
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