HYDERABAD:
Telangana on Sunday recorded 150
new cases of Covid-19 and 2 deaths, taking the total number of cases so far in the state to 2,95,581. The death toll so far is 1,610. With an improved recovery rate in the state, the total number of patients in the state who have recovered from the coronavirus infection has touched 2,92,032.
Telangana meanwhile has 1,939 active cases of Covid-19 currently of which 808 are under hospitalized treatment. The recovery rate currently stands at 98.79 percent. This is better than the country average recovery rate of 97.2 percent, showing more number of patients recovering in the state. Also the case fatality rate (CFR) is currently 0.54 percent against the country average CFR of 1.4 percent. This shows that there are fewer Covid-19 deaths in the state when compared to many other parts of the country.
On Sunday, a total of 34,805 samples were tested for the virus. Telangana has now completed testing 81 lakh samples and has reached 2.17 lakh sample testing per million population.
The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) recorded 25 new cases on Sunday which was the highest among districts. Except five districts all the remaining districts in the state recorded up to 10 new cases. the ones which did not record new cases were
Jangaon, Jayashankar Bhupalpally, Kamareddy, Narayanpet and Wanaparthy.