This story is from December 16, 2020

Telangana transport minister Puvvada Ajay Kumar tests Covid positive

Telangana transport minister Puvvada Ajay Kumar tests Covid positive
Telangana transport minister Puvvada Ajay Kumar
HYDERABAD: Transport minister Puvvada Ajay Kumar has tested positive for Covid-19. The minister (55), who represents Khammam in the assembly, asked everyone who has come in contact with him in the recent past to be in home isolation for 10 days and get a Covid-19 test done.
On December 10, Ajay Kumar had met IT minister KT Rama Rao at Pragati Bhavan in Hyderabad.
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Kumar said he is in home isolation at the ministers’ quarters in Hyderabad and urged people not to meet him or call him and that he would share his health updates at regular intervals. “There is no cause for concern. I will recover and come back and participate in official programmes,” the minister said in a statement on Tuesday. He had got an RT-PCR test done.
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Sushil Rao is Editor-Special Reports, at The Times of India, Hyderabad. He began his journalism career at the age of 20 in 1988. He is a gold medalist in journalism from the Department of Communication and Journalism, Arts College, Osmania University, Hyderabad from where he did his post-graduation from. He has been with The Times of India’s Hyderabad edition since its launch in 2000. He has also done an introductory course in film studies from the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, and also from the Central University of Kerala equipping himself with the knowledge of filmmaking for film criticism. He has authored four books. In his career spanning 34 years, he has worked for five newspapers and has also done television reporting. He was also a web journalist during internet’s infancy in the mid 1990s in India. He covers defence, politics, diaspora, innovation, administration, the film industry, Hyderabad city and Telangana state, and human interest stories. He is also a podcaster, blogger, does video reporting and makes documentaries.

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