Telangana logs 643 new Coronavirus cases

Hyderabad: Telangana reported 643 new Covid cases on Thursday taking the state's tally to 2,75,904. During the last 24 hours Greater Hyderabad reported 109 new cases. Medchal Malkajgiri district saw the second highest number of new cases at 84 followed by Rangareddy (82), Warangal Urban (56), Karimnagar (38), Nalgonda (32) and Khammam (29).

Two more persons succumbed to the virus during the same period, taking the death toll to 1,482. The fatality rate stands at 0.53 per cent against the national average of 1.5 per cent. 

According to the



director of public health and family welfare, 44.96 per cent of the deaths were due to Covid while the remaining 55.04 were on account of comorbidities.

Recoveries continued to outnumber daily count of new infections as 805 people recovered from the virus during the last 24 hours, taking the cumulative recoveries to 2,66,925. The recovery rate improved further to 96.74 per cent against the national average of 94.7 per cent. The state now has 7,497 active Covid cases and of them 5,434 were in home or institutional isolation.