COVID spreading fast in villages

Current death rate is almost five times compared to the past

COVID is spreading fast in rural areas and the fatality rate is going up by the day. A village near the district headquarters town of Sangareddy has reported 16 deaths in the last one and a half month, though all of them could not be attributed to coronavirua. However, the current death rate is almost five times compared to the past, indicating the seriousness. A panchayat official informed on condition of anonymity that there used to be two to three deaths in two months earlier. On May 14, the data released by the Medak district administration shows that 23 persons tested at D Dharmaram village, out of which 12 tested positive (52.2%). At PHC Papannapet, 25 persons tested and nine of them came positive (36%), PHC Sardana 19 out of 54 (35.2%), and PHC Shivampet six out of 17 (35.3%). The average was 21.1%.