Greater Hyderabad, neighbouring districts see drop in daily Covid-19 cases

HYDERABAD: Telangana recorded 4,693 new cases of Covid-19 and 33 deaths on Thursday with positivity improving, now at 6.6 per cent from 10 per cent 10 days back.
With the new cases recorded on Thursday, the number of active cases now stands at 56,917, a drastic drop from over 80,000 active cases just 10 days back.
Telangana has so far recorded 5,16,404 cases of Covid-19 and 2,867 deaths. On Thursday a total of 6,876 patients were declared recovered, taking the total number of recoveries in the state to 4,56,620. The case fatality rate (CFR) stands at 0.55 per cent while recovery rate stood at 88.4 per cent. The state tested 71,221 samples as on Thursday with state now completing 1.38 crore samples so far, 3.73 lakh sample testing per million.
Greater Hyderabad recorded 734 new cases on Thursday while neighbouring Medchal-Malkajgiri recorded 285, Rangareddy recorded 296 and Sangareddy recorded 136 new cases — all showing a declining trend. A total of 19 out of 33 districts recorded over 100 new cases on Thursday.
Among other distirts, Warangal Urban, Mahabubnagar, Khammam, Karimnagar, Nalgonda, Suryapet, Siddipet and Nagarkurnool recorded a high number of cases.