2,924 new Covid-19 infections, 10 fatalities in Telangana

Telangana recorded 2,924 new Covid-19 infections and ten fatalities on Saturday, pushing the overall toll to 818 and the cumulative number of positive cases to 1,23,090. The total active cases as on Saturday night in the State was 31,284.

Between Friday and Saturday, the health authorities conducted 61,148 Covid tests in the State while reports of another 1,801 samples are awaited. 

A total of 1,638 persons have recovered by Saturday, taking the overall Covid-19 recoveries in the



State to 90,988 with a recovery rate of 73.9 per cent while the countrywide recovery rate is at 76.63 per cent.

Overall, so far authorities have conducted 13,27,791 Covid-19 tests in the State since the outbreak of the pandemic out of which 1,23,090 have tested positive and 90,988 persons have recovered.

Out of the 31,284 active Covid positive patients, as many as 24,176 Covid-19 positive patients are under home isolation across the State while 7,108 positive cases are in institutional care.