COVID-19: Telangana reports 1,492 new cases, 13 deaths

Hyderabad: Telangana on Thursday registered 1,492 fresh coronavirus cases, pushing the tally to 6.09 lakh while the toll rose to 3,534 with 13 more fatalities.

The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) accounted for the most number of cases with 166 followed by Khammam 129 and Nalgonda 115 districts, a state government bulletin said, providing details as of 5.30 PM on Thursday.

The number of recoveries outnumbered fresh cases on today with 1,933 people recoveringfrom the infectious disease, taking the cumulative number of recoveries to 5,86,362.

The number of active cases was 19,521, the bulletin said.

It said 1,19,464 samples were tested in the last 24 hours and the total number of samples tested till date was 1.71 crore.

The samples tested per million population was 4,61,857.

The case fatality rate in the state was 0.57 per cent, while it was 1.3 per cent at the national level.

The recovery rate in Telangana was 96.21 per cent, while it was 95.89 per cent in the country.