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Second wave of Covid-19 in Telangana safety measures to be taken...

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Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Sunday said his government will take all measures to withstand the second wave of Covid-19 in the state. He directed the officials to take all the preventive measures needed in view of the increase in the number of coronavirus cases in some other states. He said that all the required actions and measures would be taken to withstand even the emergence of a second wave in the state. He suggested to people to be cautious and observe self-protection guidelines, saying maintaining personal safety is the best medicine for the pandemic. KCR, as Rao is popularly known, reviewed the Covid situation at a meeting at his official residence 'Pragathi Bhavan'. "Situation is coming back to normalcy in the state. Covid cases are on the decrease in Telangana state. Despite a high increase in the number of tests conducted, the positive cases are less than 10 per cent. The recovery rate is 94.5 per cent. Though people with Covid are suffering

CHAPARE VIRUS FROM SOUTH AMERICA

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Bolivia : Exactly a year after the first case of Coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) was reportedly spotted, United States’ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has announced that a deadly virus- ‘Chapare Virus’ with its origin in Bolivia it can disturb the world. The symptoms of this virus are similar to Ebola and can also be transmitted through humans. The new virus, when transmitted, can be severe and can lead to brain haemorrhage. The origin of this virus was seen in the Chapare area of Bolivia in the year 2004. According to the report in Live Science, the CDC said that in 2019, three out of five people who were affected by this infection were health workers, out of which two died. As per the reports, Colin Carlson, a researcher at Georgetown University, said that a hemorrhagic fever like Ebola spreads very hard like a corona or flu. This is because symptoms of hemorrhagic fever usually appear immediately after infection (due to prolonged respiratory illness) an