High COVID-19 prevalence pulls health officials to Karimnagar district

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Considerably high number of COVID-19 cases in Karimnagar has made the Telangana government to send a team of State Health department officials to district on Thursday to plan measures for containing spread of coronavirus and seasonal diseases. The officials and the district administration held series of meetings with health staff, and medical officers from Primary Health Centres (PHC), conducted field visits. From the past several days, the daily new infections in the district have been second only to Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) — which is an urban locality. In fact, the daily case load in Karimnagar was highest of all the 33 districts on two days at least: on July 26 and August 2. The new infections in the districts ranged from 60 to 75 in a day in the past one week.