COVID-19: Telangana sees over 2,000 new cases; crosses 75,000 mark, death toll crosses 600

HYDERABAD: Telangana on Friday announced 2,207 new Covid positive cases, which take the total to 75,257 cases by Thursday night, consisting of 65.6% men and 34.4% women.

The state suffered 12 Covid deaths afresh to take the total death toll to 601 so far, translating into a case fatality rate of 0.79% as against the national average of 2.07%. Of the deceased, 46.13% died of Covid and 53.87% due to comorbidities.

Telangana announced 1,136 recoveries over the past 24 hours to take the total recoveries to 53,239 persons, constituting a recovery rate of 70.7% as against the national average of 67.62%.


By Thursday night, the state saw 21,417 active cases, which include 14,837 persons in either home or institutional isolation where about 84% were asymptomatic.

Over the past 24 hours, Telangana tested 23,495 samples to take the total to 5,66,984 tests to date. The state said 1,539 reports are still awaited. The tests per million population amounted to 15,271.7 by Thursday.