Chief ministers of the two Telugu states K Chandrasekahara Rao and his Andhra Pradesh counterpart on Friday attended a video conference being held by Prime Minister Narendra Modi with chief ministers and state health ministers to ensure a coordinated approach to counter the corona virus.
Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao has appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to utilise laboratory facilities at the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) Hyderabad to test the Coronavirus presence in patients. The CM brought to the notice of the PM that lab facilities at the CCMB can be utilised for conducting tests for a large number of patient’s blood samples from any place in the country. He said that the CCMB was under the Centre’s control. The CCMB conducts the life sciences research. If an opportunity is given to conduct tests for the Corona virus, a thousand samples can be tested at one go at the CCMB, he said. The CM brought this matter to the PM’s notice.
Since a large number of people in the country travel by rail, tests should be conducted at the railway stations. High sanitation should be maintained in the railway coaches and at the railway stations. KCR said all measures were taken in Telangana State to prevent people gathering in large numbers. Festivals like Sri Ram Navami, Jagne Ki
Raat and celebrations connected to them were cancelled. The CM assured the PM that the state government would work with the Centre to stop spread of the Coronavirus in the country.
In the first such Centre-state interaction at the top level, Telanaga CM is likely to raise the issue of banning all international flights after a group of 10 Indonesians were found to have carried corona virus to Karimnagar.
The Telangana CM had put the state, especially Karimnagar on a high alert to contain and tackle the deadly virus. He will be visiting Karimnagar, which has a population of more than three lakh, to take a stock of the situation in the district where the Indonesian evangelists have stayed for two days. The state government has swung into action since and put up stringent vigilance in the areas visited by the Indonesians.
The Indonesians are believed to have visited three mosques in Karimnagar and the government is scanning thousands of houses with medical teams conducting health check ups to detect and rule out any positive cases of corona.
Modi has already held a video conference with heads of Saarc leaders and had deputed Principal Secretary PK Mishra to coordinate with states, who held a series of videoconferences.
