HYDERABAD: With 535 new cases of
Covid-19 and three deaths recorded in the state on Sunday, the recovery rate dropped a bit. Over the last 10 days alone, the recovery rate in the state has reduced by 1%, going down from 98.86% to 97.98%.
All districts in the state recorded new cases on Sunday, while Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation, Rangareddy, Medchal-Malkajgiri and Nizamabad recorded a steep rise in cases. The number of active cases in the state, meanwhile, has increased to 4,495 currently. So far, the state has recorded 3,06,339 cases of Covid-19 and 1,688 deaths. On Sunday,
Telangana recorded 3,00,156 cumulative recoveries from the infection.
Meanwhile, the case fatality rate (CFR) has gone up from 0.54% to 0.55% over the last week. On Sunday, 57,942 samples were tested for the virus, taking the total count of samples tested so far in the state to 1 crore. With this, Telangana has reached 2.69 lakh sample testing per million population. GHMC recorded 154 new cases on Sunday.