HYDERABAD: With 2,909 new cases of
Covid-19 recorded on Saturday, the number of active cases in the state have shot up to 17,791 now. With this, the recovery rate saw the sharpest decline till date, dropping from 94.63% on Friday to 93.96% on Saturday.
Also, six Covid-19 deaths were recorded over the last 24 hours, adding up to a total of 1,752 deaths so far in the state. Telangana has so far recorded 3.24 lakh cases of Covid-19 and a total of 3.04lakh patients in the state have recovered from the infection.
Testing for Covid-19 touched an all time high of 1.11 lakh on Saturday, breaking the previous record of 1.01 lakh tests in a day (which were the highest till Friday since the beginning of the pandemic). With this, Telangana has completed 1.08 crore tests and has reached 2.92 lakh sample testing per million population.
“While majority of the cases are being seen in and around Hyderabad, we have ramped up testing to more than double the numbers as compared to last week. The idea is to identify cases early and control the spread,” said a senior official from the state health department.
GHMC area recorded 487 of the total cases on Saturday while Medchal-Malkajgiri recorded 289 cases. Rangareddy recorded 225 cases and Sangareddy recorded 117 cases — the four totalled to 1,118 cases.