HYDERABAD: After hovering around the one-lakh mark for about a week — following the High Court’s directive on increasing daily testing — the count of Covid-19 tests in Telangana dropped to 88,867 on Wednesday, even as it recorded a fresh 3,801 Covid-19 positive cases. With one death recorded over the last 24 hours, the total death toll of the state stood at 4,078.
While the case fatality rate remained constant at 0.55 per cent, the recovery rate dropped further to 94.37 per cent with 2,046 patients recovering on Wednesday.
So far, 7,05,054 patients across Telangana have recovered after contracting the virus.
Meanwhile, even as most districts saw a drop in their daily count of cases, the numbers continued on a northward trend in Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) limits that recorded 1,570 cases followed by Rangareddy with 284 and Medchal Malkajgiri with 254.