Dists see surge as Telangana sees 8,000 new cases

HYDERABAD: Telangana on Wednesday recorded 8,061 new cases of Covid-19 and 56 deaths. With this, the total count of cases in the state now stand at 4,19,966 while the death toll has risen to 2,150.
The number of active cases rose to 72,133 as another 5,093 people recovered, taking the total count of patients who have recovered in the state to 3,45,683.

The recovery rate in the state further slid down to 82.31 per cent on Wednesday, and is now level with the national average recovery rate. Telangana had previously been ahead of the country when it came to recovery rate. The rate has consistently slid from 98.9 per cent on April 1 to the current level.
A total of 82,270 samples were tested on Wednesday. With this, Telangana has completed testing 1.27 crore samples till date and has reached 3.42 lakh sample testing per million population now.
The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) recorded 1,508 cases while Medchal-Malkajgiri recorded 673, Ranga Reddy 514 and Sanga Reddy 373. Khammam with 277 cases, Karimnagar with 275, Nalgonda with 311, Mahabubnagar with 328, Nizamabad with 291 and Vikarabad with 276 are leading the surge in districts.