Small spike in COVID cases in GHMC region
The Hindu
The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) region recorded a small spike in COVID-19 cases. Usually, around 75-80 cases are recorded in the municipal corporation limits, which also contributes
The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) region recorded a small spike in COVID-19 cases. Usually, around 75-80 cases are recorded in the municipal corporation limits, which also contributes the maximum number of cases to the State’s infection tally almost every day. On Tuesday, however, 96 new infections were detected.
GHMC region includes Hyderabad, and some parts of Rangareddy and Medchal-Malkajgiri. Of all the districts, the highest number of people with coronavirus are detected in urban localities.
On the whole, Telangana recorded 336 new cases of coronavirus on Tuesday, taking the total to 6,62,202. While 76,481 samples were put to test, results of 2,015 were awaited. One more COVID patient died. With this, the death toll has reached 3,898.
Hampi, the UNESCO-recognised historical site, was the capital of the Vijayanagara empire from 1336 to 1565. Foreign travellers from Persia, Europe and other parts of the world have chronicled the wealth of the place and the unique cultural mores of this kingdom built on the banks of the Tungabhadra river. There are fine descriptions to be found of its temples, farms, markets and trading links, remnants of which one can see in the ruins now. The Literature, architecture of this era continue inspire awe.
Unfurling the zine handed to us at the start of the walk, we use brightly-coloured markers to draw squiggly cables across the page, starting from a sepia-toned vintage photograph of the telegraph office. Iz, who goes by the pronouns they/them, explains, “This building is still standing, though it shut down in 2013,” they say, pointing out that telegraphy, which started in Bengaluru in 1854, was an instrument of colonial power and control. “The British colonised lands via telegraph cables, something known as the All Red Line.”