HYDERABAD:
Telangana recorded 208 new
Covid-19 cases and 2 deaths on Monday even as the number of active cases in the state stood at 4,991, going below the 5000 mark for the first time since the second of the pandemic struck. The total count of cases since the beginning of the pandemic last year, stand at 6,63,662 and the death toll stands at 3,906.
A total of 220 patients were declared recovered on Monday, taking the total count of recovered patients to 6,54,765.
The
case fatality rate (CFR) stands at 0.58 percent while the recovery rate stood at 98.65 percent now. So far 79.8 percent of overall cases in the state have been asymptomatic while 20.2 percent have been symptomatic.
On Monday, 45,274 samples were tested for the novel coronavirus. Telangana has now completed testing 2.58 crore samples and has reached 6.95 lakh sample testing per million population.
The
Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) recorded 49 cases on Monday, while neighbouring Medchal
Malkajgiri recorded 15 cases, Ranga Reddy recorded 9 and Sanga Reddy recorded 4 cases. Outside of Hyderabad city and its outskirts, Warangal Urban with 20 new cases recorded the highest number of cases.