Hyderabad, March 8(Telugu Bullet) Telangana’s Covid-19 tally crossed the 3 lakh mark on Monday with the state reporting 111 new cases during the last 24 hours.
The fresh cases pushed the cumulative tally to 3,00,011.
The state crossed the 3 lakh-mark a week after it completed one year of the pandemic. It was on March 2 last year that Telangana had reported the first Covid case.
The state crossed the 1 lakh-mark in August and the 2 lakh-mark in October.
Meanwhile, one more person succumbed to the virus during the last 24 hours taking the death toll to 1,642.
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.
The drop in the daily Covid count was due to fewer tests conducted over the weekend.
According to the daily media bulletin released by the health department, 19,929 tests were conducted during the last 24 hours. This was 50 percent less than the number of tests being conducted on weekdays.
A total of 16,082 samples were tested in government labs and 3,847 in private labs.
The cumulative number of tests rose to 89,84,552. Samples tested per million population climbed to 2,41,390.
The daily testing target for the state is 5,600 as per the WHO benchmark of 140 tests per million per day.
greater Hyderabad saw a maximum number of cases at 27 followed by Rangareddy (10). Eight districts reported no cases, while in the remaining 23 districts the daily count was in single digit.
For a second consecutive day, the active cases dropped as the state saw more recoveries than new cases.
A total of 189 people recovered during the last 24 hours, taking the cumulative recoveries to 2,96,562. The recovery rate improved to 98.85 percent against the national average of 96.9 percent.
The total number of active cases now stands at 1,807 including 689 who were in-home/institutional isolation.
Over 90 percent of the beds in hospitals treating Covid cases remained vacant. As many as 8,204 beds out of 8,577 beds in 62 government hospitals were vacant.
Similarly, in 215 private hospitals, 6,859 out of 7,605 beds were vacant.
