Telangana records 221 new Covid cases, 2 deaths

Hyderabad: Telangana on Saturday recorded 221 new cases of Covid-19 and two deaths even as the positivity rate came down to 0.7% in the state for the first time. Meanwhile, the caseload so far is 2,93,056, while the death toll climbed to 1,588. So far, 2,87,899 patients have recovered from the infection.

Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation recorded 36 new cases on Saturday.

The number of active cases in the state further decreased to 3,569 on Saturday, after mid-June last year. Of these, 19,73 patients were currently in hospital. The case fatality rate (CFR) in the state is currently stable at 0.54% as against the country average CFR of 1.4%. The recovery rate meanwhile is 98.2% now, also better than the country average of 96.8%.

On Saturday, 30,005 samples were tested for Covid-19 from across the state. With this, Telangana has now completed testing 76.3 lakh samples and has reached 2,05,077 sample testing per million population. tnn