299 Covid-19 cases, two deaths in Telangana

HYDERABAD: Telangana on Sunday recorded 299 new cases of Covid-19 and two deaths, even as the number of active cases in the state inched close to the 4,200 mark. The total number of cases so far are 2,91,666 while the death toll is 1,577. So far, a total of 2,85,989 patients have recovered from the coronavirus infection while the state currently has 4,191 active cases.
With the recovery rate improving further to 98% in the state, there are just 2,395 Covid-19 positive patients who are currently hospitalized.The average recovery rate in the country is 96.6%. On the other hand, the case fatality rate (CFR) in the state is 0.54%, being much lower than the country average of 1.4%.
Keeping in line with low testing in the state over the last couple of days, 33,298 samples were tested on Sunday. With this, a total of 74.6 lakh samples have been tested so far in the state, taking the number of samples tested per million population to 2 lakh now.
Among the districts, GHMC recorded 57 new cases. This was followed by 26 cases in Medchal-Malkajgiri, 24 cases in Karimnagar, 18 cases in Rangareddy and 11 cases in Bhadradri Kothagudem.