The Telangana Government, on the 2nd of September, set up call centres for the Novel Coronavirus or COVID-19 patients.
The decision to do so was taken due to the massive rise in the cases since the past few weeks.
The call centres for COVID-19 are set up separately in all the districts of Telangana.
The news of the Coronavirus call centres, being set up was confirmed by the Telangana Medical and Health departments.
Earlier, the corona care centres were set up only in the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) limits.
The medical department officials said, “At present, there are 90 corona care centres in the state having 8,688 beds.”
The coronavirus care centres have been set up for the people having difficulties to stay in home quarantine. The patients can produce the test reports and get admitted into the centre.
JNTU college in Manthani of Karimnagar, Polytechnic college in Parakal area of Warangal, Sharada engineering college in Khammam, various schools and colleges in other districts have been turned as quarantine centres.
Meanwhile, hotels like Novotel, Radisson, The Manohara and other five star hotels have been turned as the Novel Coronavirus care centres.
There are around 14 corona care centres in Hyderabad which are under government’s control and 13 private quarantine centres.
With the new set up, every district would have one Coronavirus care centre.
Meanwhile, Telangana has a total of 1,30,589 cases of COVID-19, of which 32,341 are active cases, 97,402 recovered/ discharged and 846 deceased.
Stay tuned for further updates.
