Telangana registers single-day high of 2,200 Covid-19 cases

HYDERABAD: Telangana reported 12 coronavirus deaths with the single-day highest count of 2,207 cases on Friday.
While the death toll has gone up to 601, the total caseload has touched 75,257, with Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) reporting 532 cases followed by Rangareddy district with 196 cases and Warangal Urban district with 142 cases.
Barring Nirmal, all the other districts in the state recorded cases in double digits. Health authorities also said that 1,135 patients recovered on Thursday, taking the total number of people recovered so far from the global pandemic to 53,239. At present there are 21,417 active cases in the state and out of these 14,837 patients are under home isolation.
The state tested 23,495 samples with the results of 1,539 samples awaited and overall 5,67,000 tests were conducted by the state thus far. Recovery rate stands at 70 percent in Telangana against the national average of 67 percent.