HYDERABAD: Telangana recorded 354 new Covid-19 cases and three deaths on Monday even as the number of active cases in the state stood at 6,308.
The total count of cases since the beginning of the pandemic last year stands at 6,55,343 and the death toll stands at 3,861. The number of active containment zones in the state stands at 16. Jagtiyal, Karimnagar and Nalgonda have majority of the active containment zones in the state.
A total of 427 patients were declared recovered on Monday, taking the total count of recovered patients to 6,45,174. The case fatality rate (CFR) stands at 0.58% while the recovery rate stood at 98.44% now. So far, 79.8% of overall cases in the state have been asymptomatic while 20.2% have been symptomatic. On Monday, 74,634 samples were tested for the novel coronavirus. Telangana has now completed testing 2.40 crore samples and has reached 6.45 lakh sample testing per million population.
The GHMC recorded 57 cases on Monday, while neighbouring Medchal Malkajgiri recorded 7 cases, Rangareddy recorded 17 and Sangareddy recorded four cases. Outside of Hyderabad city and its outskirts, Karimnagar recorded the highest number of cases with 32 new cases being recorded on Sunday while Narayanpet and Warangal Urban saw more cases.
