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TS adds 230 cases to COVID tally
The Hindu
The State recorded 230 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, taking the total to 6,59,543. While 50,636 samples were examined, results of 788 were awaited. The new infections include 72 from Greater Hydera
The State recorded 230 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, taking the total to 6,59,543. While 50,636 samples were examined, results of 788 were awaited. The new infections include 72 from Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation region, 18 from Warangal Urban and 17 from Medchal-Malkajgiri. No case was recorded in five districts, including Narayanpet and Nirmal, on the day. Another COVID patient died on Sunday. With this, the death toll now stands at 3,884.![](/newspic/picid-1269750-20250217064624.jpg)
When fed into Latin, pusilla comes out denoting “very small”. The Baillon’s crake can be missed in the field, when it is at a distance, as the magnification of the human eye is woefully short of what it takes to pick up this tiny creature. The other factor is the Baillon’s crake’s predisposition to present less of itself: it moves about furtively and slides into the reeds at the slightest suspicion of being noticed. But if you are keen on observing the Baillon’s crake or the ruddy breasted crake in the field, in Chennai, this would be the best time to put in efforts towards that end. These birds live amidst reeds, the bulrushes, which are likely to lose their density now as they would shrivel and go brown, leaving wide gaps, thereby reducing the cover for these tiddly birds to stay inscrutable.