Hyderabad, March 25, (Telugu Bullet): Telangana state is on high alert on increased corona cases. Mainly Areas under the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) and adjoining districts continue to report an incremental growth in the number of Covid-19 positive cases, pushing the overall tally of infections in the State.
On Tuesday, the number of Covid cases from GHMC areas went up to 111 and the overall cases in the State rose to 431. On Monday, the State had recorded 412 cases while areas under the GHMC had reported 103 cases.
The spike, albeit in smaller numbers, continued to be reported from neighboring districts too with the number of cases from Medchal-Malkajgiri going up from 31 on Monday to 37 on Tuesday and that of Rangareddy district rising from 27 to 31.
The cases in Sangareddy almost doubled from eight on Monday to 16 on Tuesday while the pattern was similar in Mancherial where the cases rose from 9 to 21 between Monday and Tuesday.
As per the bulletin by the Director of Public Health and Family Welfare, two deaths due to Covid were reported on Tuesday taking the total fatalities due to the infection in the State to 1,676. There were 3,352 active cases in the State with 1,395 individuals being in-home or institutional isolation.
The cumulative figures from the bulletin put the total Covid-19 positive cases so far at 3,04,298 with 2,99,270 of them having recovered at a recovery rate of 98.34 percent as against the country’s average of 95.5 percent.
In the last week, the number of Covid-19 positive cases in Hyderabad has more than tripled. From 35 cases on March 17, the cases from areas under the GHMC kept rising each day to cross the 100-mark on Monday and reached 111 on Tuesday. During the same week, the cases from Medchal-Malkajgiri went up from 21 to 37 while the Rangareddy district reported a rise in cases from 12 on March 17 to 31 on March 23.
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