Srikalahasti on red alert, town under quarantine; essential services suspended

The spike in number of COVID cases in Chittoor district has prompted the district administration to declare three more mandals red zones. And now the entire town has been quarantine.
Collector Narayana Bharat Gupta clarified that of the new positive cases here, eight of them were government employees and workers engaged in or monitoring COVID-19 relief operations in the town. They were most likely to have had contact with the primary sources connected to Tabhligi Jamaat, he said.
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