First Tollywood celebrity found Covid-19 positive
Correspondent
HYDERABAD, June 20 2020 (HS): Actor and producer Bandla Ganesh, who is popular for producing blockbusters like Pawan Kalyan's Gabbar Singh is tested positive for Coronavirus. He resides in a gated community in Hyderabad, where actor Naga Shourya also resides.
Bandla Ganesh owns poultry business in Shadnagar and he frequently travels to Hyderabad from Shadnagar. Health officials are now trying to trace out the contacts in touch with him in order to send their samples for testing as well.
His primary contacts shall be soon traced and quarantined, said a health department official.
Recording its highest single-day spike, Telangana, on Friday reported 499 fresh cases of Covid-19, taking the total to 6,526. Three persons died of the dreaded virus in last 24 hours, taking the death toll to 198 across the state.
This is the highest number of new cases of Corona virus, registered in a single day. There are close to 2,926 active cases in the state.