Covid-19: Telangana sees seven more deaths, 1,590 new cases

HYDERABAD: Telangana on Sunday recorded seven deaths and 1,590 new cases of Covid-19 even as authorities said the virus was again spreading in districts near Hyderabad.
With the latest numbers, the coronavirus case-load now stands at 23,902, the seventh-highest among all states, while the death toll rose to 295.
State health authorities are concentrating on Medchal and Ranga Reddy districts, which have seen a jump in cases.
On Sunday alone, 125 cases were recorded in Medchal district while 82 cases were registered in Ranga Reddy.
Also, districts like Mahabubnagar, Nalgonda and Suryapet continue to see a surge, while the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) area saw over 85% of the new cases recorded.
Testing in the state was down by 1,000 samples on Sunday even as health authorities offered to help the 13 erring private laboratories testing Covid-19 samples to fix their flaws.
Numbers from one of the testing laboratories which have been flagged by the state health authorities have been kept in abeyance meanwhile has refuted the state government’s claim that the positivity rate of the laboratory is as high as 71 percent.
They instead clarified that the positivity rates are just above 30 percent and that they had previously not uploaded all reports but have now started doing so.