HYDERABAD: Telangana recorded 465 new Covid-19 cases and four deaths on Sunday, going below the 500 mark for the first time since the second wave peaked.
The number of active cases in the state stood at 10,316. The total count of cases since the beginning of the pandemic last year stands at 6,31,683 and the death toll stands at 3,729. The number of active containment zones in the state reduced to 32.
Currently, there are no active micro containment zones in Hyderabad while Mahabubabad with nine and Bhadadri Kothagudem with seven micro containment zones have majority of the active containment zones in the state.
A total of 869 patients were declared recovered on Sunday, taking the total count of recovered patients to 6,17,638. The case fatality rate (CFR) stands at 0.59% while the recovery rate has improved to 97.77% now. So far, 79.8% of overall cases in the state have been asymptomatic while 20.2% have been symptomatic.
On Sunday, 65,607 samples were tested, going down from over 1 lakh tests each day. Telangana has now completed testing 1.97 crore samples and has reached 5.30 lakh sample testing per million population. The GHMC recorded 70 new cases on Sunday.
