Jeevan Reddy, a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) of Armoor assembly constituency in Nizamabad, tested positive for the Novel Coronavirus or COVID-19.
The results of the COVID-19 tests came on the afternoon of the 29th of July.
MLA Asannagari Jeevan Reddy is found to be infected with the virus and is under home isolation at his residence in Hyderabad.
Samples of his family members and staff have been collected and the results are awaited yet. They have been advised to go under home quarantine. Also, people who have come in contact with the MLA for the past few days were also advised to isolate themselves and get COVID-19 tests done.
Earlier, MLAs Bajireddy Govardhan Reddy (Nizamabad rural), Bigala Ganesh (Nizamabad Urban), Manchireddy Kishan Reddy (Ibrahimpatnam), Vivekananda Goud (Quthbullapur), Muthireddy Yadagiri Reddy (Jangaon) tested positive for the deadly virus. Even the home minister Mahmood Ali had tested positive and recovered from the virus.
Recently, on the 26th of July, Hyderabad Mayor Bonthu Rammohan was also infected with the virus and is under home isolation.
Meanwhile, the total number of positive cases in Telangana stands at 58,906, of which 14,663 are active cases, 43,751 recovered/discharged.
The total number of deceased in the State are 492.
Telangana’s recovery rate is 74.30 % and COVID-19 recovery rate of Andhra Pradesh is 47.07 %.
In the past 24 hours, Telangana conducted 18, 858 sample tests for COVID-19.
Overall, the State conducted 3,97,939 Covid-19 tests till date. Of the total, results of 788 samples are yet to come.
Stay tuned for further updates.
