After ease in lockdown, heavy traffic at Andhra-Telangana border
Jun 13, 2021
Suryapet (Telangana) [India], June 13 : With the ease of Covid-induced lockdown restrictions and owing to the weekend, a heavy traffic jam was witnessed at the Andhra Pradesh-Telangana border on Sunday.
A large number of vehicles gathered at the Ramapuram check-post in the limits of Kodada Mandal of Suryapet district of Telangana.
Telangana Police was only allowing those with e-pass to cross the border to enter the state.
All those who failed to produce an e-pass were sent back, causing the traffic snarl on the highway, at the interstate border.
Telangana reported 1,280 new COVID-19 cases, 2,261 recoveries and 15 deaths in the last 24 hours, according to the state government's medical bulletin on Sunday.
The total cases reached 6,03,369 including 5,78,748 total recoveries, 21,137 active cases and 3,484 deaths.
