COVID-19 in Telangana: 1,708 New Cases, 88% Recovery Rate

Telangana has reported 1,708 new coronavirus cases with 88% recovery rate, revealed sources.

In Telangana, in the last 24 hours, 1,708 new COVID-19 cases were reported.

Coronavirus
Coronaviruses infect animals, humans, and birds. Human coronaviruses, such as SARS, MERS, and 2019-nCoV cause respiratory distress and even death. The S protein is the infectious agent of the virus.

‘Telangana's recovery rate now is 88.15% against a national average of 86.8%.’

COVID-19 in Telangana

The number of recovered patients: 2,009
Recovery rate: Over 88%
Total tally: 2,14,792
Total number of recoveries: 1,89,351
Active cases: 24,208 (including 19,748 in the home or institutional isolation)
Death toll: 1,233
Fatality rate: 0.57%
% of deaths due to COVID-19: 44.96
Number of tests conducted (last 24 hours): 46,835

Seventeen government and 44 private laboratories and 1,076 rapid antigen test centers are conducting the tests.

Out of 2,13,084 positive cases so far, 70% were asymptomatic while the remaining 30% were symptomatic.

Of the new cases, Greater Hyderabad accounted for 277, followed by Rangareddy district at 137, Medchal Malkajgiri (124), Bhadradri Kothagudem (97), Karimnagar (86), Nalgonda (81), Khammam (81), and Nizamabad (66).

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63.9% of positive COVID-19 cases were in the age group of 21-50, 22% above 51, and 13.18% below 20.

66.64% of positive cases were men, and the remaining 38.37% were women.

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Most beds in government and private hospitals treating coronavirus patients are vacant. Of the 8,792 beds in 62 government COVID hospitals, 7,034 are vacant. A total of 228 private hospitals treating COVID patients have 9,167 beds, of which 6,465 are vacant.

Source-Medindia

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