Telangana reports 1593 new COVID-19 positive cases

Telangana recorded 1593 new Covid-19 infections and eight fatalities on Saturday, which took the overall toll to 463 and the cumulative number of positive cases  in the State to 54,059.

As many as 998 patients have recovered yesterday which has taken the overall tally of recoveries to 41,332 persons while the number of active Covid-19 positive cases in the State is 12, 264.  The mortality rate, which is the number of persons who died for every 100 Covid-19 positive cases is 0.86 per cent in the State while the countrywide



mortality rate is 2.3 per cent.

Between Friday and Saturday, 15,654 swab samples from suspected patients were tested while the overall number of samples tested so far is 3, 53, 425.  At present, Telangana is testing 391 tests for a population of one million, according to the medical bulletin released on Sunday.

Out of the 1593 positive cases, the three districts that recorded maximum cases include areas under GHMC with 641 positive cases, 171 cases from Rangareddy district and 131 positive cases from Warangal Urban.