Telangana: Recovery rate drops by 2% in one week

HYDERABAD: There were 2,447 new cases of Covid-19 recorded in the state on Monday. The number of active cases stood at 22,197. Of the new cases, 1,112 were recorded in the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC), 235 in Medchal Malkajgiri and 183 in Ranga Reddy together accounting for nearly 94% of the cases.
Three deaths were recorded and the overall recovery rate stood at 96.31%, dropping over 2% in the last one week.
With this, the total number of Covid-19 cases in the state reached 7.11 lakh, while the death toll has reached 4,060. On Monday, a total of 80,138 samples were tested. Telangana has now completed testing 3.07 crore samples and has reached 8.25 lakh sample testing per million population.
Districts which saw more cases include Nizamabad which saw 55 cases, Mancherial 68 cases, Khammam 63 cases, Sanga Reddy 73 cases and Hanamkonda 80 cases.