K Chandrashekhar Rao said that the government is taking all measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus and people also should cooperate. (Photo: PTI)

The Telangana government is likely to give incentives to the medical employees of the state, who are at the forefront of the fight against the deadly novel coronavirus.

Not just medical, the Telangana government is also planning to provide incentives to the police personnel.

"The CM has decided to pay an additional incentive for medical, health and police personnel staff. A formal announcement related to incentive details will come in a day or two said chief minister office," the chief minister's office said in a statement.

Earlier, the Telangana government had decided salary cut between 75 per cent to 50 per cent of all government employees including the chief minister, ministers, MLAs, MLCs and IAS, IPS, IFS and others in the state.

However, Telangana Chief Minister Sri K Chandrashekhar Rao later said he has decided to pay full month salary for employees of medical and health and police department. The Telangana government is now planning to provide incentives to them.

K Chandrashekhar Rao said that the government is taking all measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus and people also should cooperate.

As the cases continued to rise up, CM KCR held a high-level meeting with the officials and discussed about tackling the new virus, known as Covid-19.

On Wednesday, three persons, who had attended a religious congregation in Delhi's Nizamuddin, died due to novel coronavirus in Telangana, taking the death toll in the state to nine. Thirty new Covid-19 cases were reported in Telangana.

All the fresh cases and the deceased had a history of attending the religious meeting at Nizamuddin in south Delhi last month.

The earlier six fatalities had also attended the same congregation.

At the meeting, the officials pointed out that the novel coronavirus is spreading in the state from those who attended the Nizamuddin Markaz and through them to their family members according to the medical reports.

"Initially, the virus spread among those who came from abroad and through them it spread to others. They are all recovering. Many of them have been discharged. No case among them is serious. But the positive cases for the past few days are all those who went to Markaz. Hence, the Telangana government has decided to conduct tests on those who went to Markaz.

There is a need to conduct tests on 300 more who went to the Markaz," top government officials said.

The Telangana government have urged those who went to Markaz in Delhi's Nizamuddin, their family members and those who came in contact with them, to undergo tests.

Meanwhile, KCR said the government is making arrangments for the supply of PPE Kits, N 95 Masks, Hydroxychloroquine tables and Azithromycin tablets. Medical kits to conduct tests are also made available, he said.

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