Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh (A.P.,) on the 3rd of April, conducted a review meeting over the ongoing situation due to COVID-19.
The major concern to call for a meeting is the rapidly increasing positive cases of the Novel Coronavirus. During the emergency review meeting, Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy discussed implementation of the lockdown measures taken to prevent the spread of the virus.
He asked the concerned supervisors and officials about the work done by Ayxillery Nurse Midwifery (ANMs) and Asha workers during the lockdown period to deal with the COVID-19 situation.
He also asked about the household survey, distribution of essential commodities, the quarantine situation and others.
The meeting was attended by Cabinet ministers of A.P., like Botsa Satyanarayana, Alla Nani, Mopidevi Venkata Ramana, Nilam Sawhney, C.S. Jawahar Reddy, Gautam Sawang the Director General of Police (DGP,) and other dignitaries of the State.
The Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party (YSRC) also organised Coronavirus testing labs at Guntur and Kadapa, increased resting centres for testing the Delhi returnees and other facilities.
The new additional testing labs at Guntur and Kadapa would start working from the 6th of April.
The review meeting was called after the State reported its first death due to the Novel Coronavirus and rising cases of COVID-19.
There are 161 positive cases of COVID-19 with recovery of 2 people of the COVID-19 till date.
