Telangana: Active cases up by 15% in a day, 1L tests conducted

HYDERABAD: With 2,478 cases of Covid-19 reported on Friday, Telangana has recorded 3.21 lakh cases overall. On Thursday, the state had reported 2,055 cases.
The state now has 15,472 active cases, an increase of over 15% from 13,362 cases on Thursday.
As per the data available with the health department, the increase in cases was seen in all 33 districts with GHMC recording the highest case load of 402 new infections on Friday.
Cases also continued to rise in Medchal-Malkajgiri, with authorities reporting 208 new infections while 176 new infections were reported from Nizamabad.
Meanwhile, after Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao directed the health officials to increase Covid-19 tests, the health department increased testing on Friday and conducted a record 1.01lakh Covid-19 tests, while results of another 3,907 samples are awaited.
Further instructing the officials to set up RT-PCR testing centres in the districts, the chief minister said, “The RTPCR test centres should be immediately set up in Gadwal, Wanaparthy, Khammam, Kothagudem, Mahabubabad, Nirmal, Mancherial, Kamareddy, Sangareddy, Medak, Jagtial, Peddapalli, Ramagundem, Bhuavanagiri, Jangaon and Vikarabad.”
On the other hand, a total of 363 persons recovered on Friday, taking the total recoveries in the state to 3.03 lakh with a recovery rate of 94.63%, while the countrywide recovery rate was 91.2%.
The Covid-19 positive cases reported from the districts included 72 from Adilabad, 35 from Bhadradri, 105 from Jagtiyal, 23 from Jangaon, 11 from Bhupalpally, nine from Gadwal, 98 from Kamareddy, 87 from Karimnagar, 54 from Khammam, 67 from Asifabad, 96 from Mahabubnagar, 16 from Mahabubabad, 85 from Mancherial.