Telangana records 5,000 new Covid-19 cases, recovery improves

HYDERABAD: Telangana on Saturday recorded 5,186 new Covid-19 cases and 38 deaths. It also saw a reduction in the number of active cases to 68,462. With this, the total number of positive cases now stands at 4,92,385 with a cumulative toll of 2,704.
A total of 7,994 patients recovered on Saturday, taking the total number of recovered patients to 4,21,219.The case fatality rate (CFR) stands at 0.54 per cent, increasing from 0.50 per cent a fortnight back. The recovery rate meanwhile has improved to 85.54 per cent. The state now has 104 active containment zones of which 17 are in Hyderabad.
As many as 69,148 samples were tested on Saturday with the state having tested 1.35 crore samples. This translates to 3.64 lakh tests per million population.
The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) recorded 904 new cases on Saturday while neighbouring Medchal Malkajgiri recorded 366 cases. Ranga Reddy recorded 399 and Sangareddy registered 133 cases. Outside Hyderabad, Nalgonda recorded the highest with 317 new cases followed by Siddipet, Nagarkurnool, Khammam and Mahabubnagar.