States »SoutPosted at: May 17 2021 8:01PM

Telangana records 3961 fresh COVID cases, 30 fatalities on Monday

Hyderabad, May 17 (UNI) Telangana registered a whopping 3,961 fresh COVID-19 cases until 1730 hours on Monday, taking the infection tally in the state to 5,32,784.

The cumulative toll in the state mounted to 2985 after 30 patients died of COVID-19 in a span of 24 hours translating a case fatality rate of 0.56 per cent as against the countrywide mortality rate of 1.1 per cent, according to the bulletin issued by the Office of the Director, Public Health and Family Welfare here today.

As many as 5559 people have recovered from coronavirus statewide in the past 24 hours pushing the total number of recoveries thus far to 4,80,458 constituting a recovery rate of 90.17 per cent while the national average was 84.8 per cent.

Active cases in the state currently stand at 49,341, the bulletin said.

As many as 62,591 samples were tested in the state during the last 24 hours to detect the contagious virus out of which the results of 2164 swab samples are awaited, the bulletin added.
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