HYDERABAD: Telangana recorded 1,556 new cases of Covid-19 and 14 deaths on Tuesday, the number of active cases declined to 19,922, going below the 20,000 mark after two-and-a-half month.
The total number of cases, since the beginning of the covid -19 last year, stands at 6,06,436 and the death toll stands at 3,510. There are 312 active containment zones in the state currently, of these, 11 containment zones are in Hyderabad, 111 in Nalgonda, 56 in Mahabubabad and 29 in Jagtial.
A total of 2,070 patients were declared recovered on Tuesday, taking the total count of recovered patients to 5,82,993. The case fatality rate (CFR) stands at 0.57%, increasing from 0.5% at the beginning of May. The recovery rate, meanwhile, has improved to 96.13% now, remaining on the climb for over a month.
On Tuesday, 1,20,043 samples were tested for the novel coronavirus. Telangana has now completed testing 1.69 crore samples and has reached 4.55 lakh sample testing per million population. GHMC recorded 182 new cases on Tuesday, while Medchal-Malkajgiri recorded 91 cases, Rangareddy recorded 90 and Sangareddy recorded 21 cases, continuing the decreasing trend.
Outside of Hyderabad city and its outskirts, Khammam (131) and Nalgonda with (135) were among districts recording higher number of new covid-19 cases.
