HYDERABAD:
Telangana on Tuesday recorded 256 new cases of Covid-19 and 2 deaths, even as the number of active cases touched 4005. The number of active cases were this low around mid June last year, before the pandemic hit the peak. The case load so far has now reached 2,92,128 while the death toll stood at 1,581. So far, a total of 2,86,542 patients have recovered from the coronavirus infection.
Meanwhile, testing remained low for over a week now with just 31,486 samples being tested on Tuesday. With the samples tested on Tuesday, Telangana has now completed testing 75.2 lakh samples and has reached 2,01,909 sample testing per million population now.
The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) recorded 51 new cases while Medchal Malkajgiri recorded 17,
Ranga Reddy recorded 15,
Karimnagar and Nalgonda recorded 11 each. All the remaining districts in the state recorded upto 10 new cases as well.