HYDERABAD: Out of 70 passengers who arrived at the Shamshabad airport on Saturday no one tested positive for the Covid-19 virus, while genome sequencing reports of 13 others who had previously tested positive are awaited.
Telangana meanwhile saw 213 new cases of Covid-19 cases and 1 death on Saturday. A total of 1964 reports are still awaited. The number of active cases in the state stood at 3,779. The total count of cases since the beginning of the pandemic last year, stand at 6,76,787 and the death toll stands at 3,998.
A total of 156 patients were declared recovered on Saturday, taking the total count of recovered patients to 6,69,010. The case fatality rate (CFR) stands at 0.59 percent while the recovery rate stood at 98.85 percent now.