HYDERABAD: Telangana on Monday recorded 116 new cases of Covid-19 and zero deaths for the fourth time in the past one month. With the latest numbers, the total count of cases has reached 2,98,923 and the death toll stands at 1,634.
While the number of active cases in the state stand at 1,902, a total of 2,95,387 patients in the state have so far recovered from the coronavirus infection. The recovery rate currently stands at 98.81% against the average recovery rate in the country of 97.1%. The case fatality rate (CFR) currently stands at 0.54%. The country average CFR is meanwhile 1.4%.
On Monday, a total of 20,375 samples were tested for the virus. Telangana has now completed conducting 87.2 lakh tests and has reached 2.34 lakh sample testing per million population. The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation recorded 26 new cases on Monday. This was followed by 11 cases each in Ranga Reddy and Medchal Malkajgiri while most other districts recorded new cases as well except 8 districts. Jangaon, Jogulamba Gadwal, Kamareddy, Komarambheem Asifabad, Mulugu, Narayanpet, Nirmal and Wanaparthy districts did not record any new case.