HYDERABAD: Even as the number of active cases in the state came down to 723 on Monday from nearly 5,000 a month back,
Telangana recorded 118 new cases and two deaths.
With this the total number of cases so far in the state are 2,94,587 while the death toll is 1,601.
The recovery rate in the state has meanwhile improved to 98.74 per cent, being on a constant upswing.
With 264 more patients being declared as recovered on Monday, the total number of patients who have recovered from the coronavirus infection has touched 2,90,894 now.
With such a high recovery rate, Telangana is among the top three states in the country to have the least mortality of Covid-19.
The case fatality rate (CFR) meanwhile is currently 0.54 percent as against the country average of 1.4 percent.
While testing remained low on Monday, just 17.686 samples were tested across the state for Covid-19.
Telangana has now completed conducting 78.8 lakh tests and has reached 2.11 lakh sample testing per million population.
The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation recorded 26 new cases of Covid-19 while Ranga Reddy recorded 13, Karimnagar, Medchal Malkajgiri and Sangareddy recorded 8 each.
Seven districts including Jogulamba Gadwal, Mahabubnagar, Yadadri Bhongir, Kamareddy, Narayanpet, Nirmal and Jayashankar Bhupalpally recorded no new cases.