Telangana reported 185 new Covid cases and two deaths during the last 24 hours, health officials said on Wednesday.
The daily count saw a surge with authorities restoring the daily number of tests to over 40,000 after nearly a month.
The fresh cases pushed the state’s Covid tally to 2,94,924. The death toll rose by 1,604.
According to the director of public health and family welfare, the fatality rate remained 0.54 percent against the national average of 1.4 percent. While 44.96 percent of the deaths occurred due to Covid, 55.04 percent had comorbidities.
Health authorities, who were conducting fewer tests since early January, tested 40,203 samples during the last 24 hours.
For nearly a month the government and private laboratories were testing 25,000 to 30,000 samples against the daily testing target of 50,000.
The cumulative number of tests conducted in the state rose to 79,55,308. Tests per million population climbed to 2,13,737.
A total of 221 people recovered from the virus, taking the cumulative number to 2,91,115.
The recovery rate improved further to 98.77 percent against the national average of 97 percent.
The active cases also dropped to 2,022 including 659 who are in-home or institutional isolation.
The daily count of cases in Greater Hyderabad was 27. Rangareddy district logged 13 cases, followed by Medchal Malkajgiri (12) and Karimnagar (10). Two districts saw no cases while the daily count in the remaining 27 districts was in single digits.
According to officials, 70 percent of positive cases reported in the state so far were asymptomatic.
Over 91 percent of the beds in hospitals treating Covid cases remained vacant. As many as 8,029 beds out of 8,577 beds in 62 government hospitals were vacant. Similarly, in 217 private hospitals, 6,961 out of 7,691 beds were vacant.
