Telangana crosses 79,000 mark in Covid cases, death toll reaches 627 on Sunday

HYDERABAD: Telangana on Sunday announced 1,982 new Covid positive cases, which take the total to 79,495 cases by Saturday night, consisting of 65.6% men and 34.4% women.

The state suffered 12 Covid deaths afresh to take the total death toll to 627 so far, translating into a case fatality rate of 0.78% as against the national average of 2.03%. Of the deceased, 46.13% died of Covid and 53.87% due to comorbidities.

Telangana announced 1,669 recoveries over the past 24 hours to take the total recoveries to 55,999 persons, constituting a recovery rate of 70.44% as against the national average of 68.32%.


By Saturday night, the state saw 22,869 active cases, which include 16,112 persons in either home or institutional isolation where about 84% were asymptomatic.

Over the past 24 hours, Telangana tested 22,925 samples to take the total to 6,13,231 tests to date. The state said 1,509 reports are still awaited. The tests per million population amounted to 16,517.3 by Saturday.