Diesel Loco Shed of Waltair Division with its innovative team work has made Remote Control operated UVC based Room Sanitizer to fight against pandemic COVID-19.

The equipment has been fabricated with its own available resources like condemned pedestal fan stand and by fixing UVC lamps along with a remote-control unit. The equipment fitted with wheels for easy movement from one room to other as per its requirement.

This indigenously developed equipment can sanitize a room size of 400 Sq. feet in short span of time.

For effective usage it is to be used for 30 minutes in large rooms of size 400 sft and for small rooms 15 minute operations would be enough.

This works with latest Ultraviolet germicidal irradiation technology. This radiation is strongly absorbed by RNA and DNA bases leading to molecular structural damage via a photodimerization process.

This results in virus inactivation, such that they are no longer able to replicate. Two such equipments are already in use at DRM Office and at Divisional Railway Hospital.

Earlier, to combat the pandemic corona virus infection the Diesel Loco Shed fabricated several instruments like Pedal operated hand wash basins, hand sanitizer dispensers, Paper/ file sanitizers, currency sanitizers that have been supplied to various offices for usage. The Diesel Shed also prepared hand sanitizer for use of railway staff.

Meanwhile, Karnataka COVID-19 War Room has released the COVID-19 Positive Cases Analysis . According to the analysis, the state has a recovery rate of 70.1% and average compounded daily growth rate of 2.6 percent in the last five days.

The state has the case fatality rate of 1.7% and deaths per million population of 80.8. The Covid cases are doubling every 22 days. Till yesterday there were 2,91,826 Covid cases. Out of these, 2,04,439 have recovered and 4958 have died. The active cases of the viral infection as stands at 82,410. 

In Telangana, surge in the number of Covid-19 cases in the state continues with 3018 new cases reported on a single day yesterday. The is the highest number of new cases recorded on a single day so far. As per the daily bulletin issued by the State Medical and Health department this morning, 3018 new COVID-19 cases have been reported out of over 61 thousand samples tested during the past 24 hours. The number of tests conducted on a single day is also the highest so far in the state. With this, the number of total COVID -19 cases reported so far in the state increased to 1,11,688.

During the same period, 1060 more COVDO -19 patients recovered and discharged from various hospitals in the state. With this, the recovery rate in the state stood at 76.3% and a total 85,223 people recovered from COVID so far. Meanwhile, 10 more died yesterday due to COVID and other comorbidities taking the total COVID-19 toll to 780. The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation, where COVID-19 prevalence was more, reported 475 fresh COVID cases during the past 24 hours while, Rangareddy and Medchal Malkajgiri districts reported over 200 each. Nizamabad, Karimnagar, Khammam, Jagityal, Mancheryal, Nalgonda and Warangal Urban districts reported over 100 new COVID cases each during the past 24 hours.

The number of COVID-19 new cases also increased considerably in other districts in the state. Telangana Health Minister Eatala Rajender confirmed that two cases of reinfection of COVID -19 have been detected in the state. The state so far recorded over one lakh COVID cases. Director Public Health Dr G Srinivas Rao said there were few cases of reinfection in the state and the symptoms were very mild. He cautioned people saying the same precautions to be taken for reinfection.