On Tuesday, the 5th of October, Telangana reported 218 new cases with one death and 248 recoveries. The new cases were confirmed by conducting 46,578 sample tests for COVID-19, of which 218 came positive for COVID-19 and reports of 1,488 are awaited.
Of the new cases, the highest number of cases have been reported from the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC,) region with 69 new cases. Of all the districts, the GHMC limit showed no improvement and reports more than 50 cases regularly.
The aforementioned data was confirmed through a health bulletin, released by the Telangana Health Department on Tuesday evening. The Health Department releases a media bulletin everyday to update the information about the COVID-19 situation in Telangana.
With this, Telangana now has 6,66,971 positive cases, of which 4,390 are active cases, 6,58,657 are recovered/discharged cases and 3,924 are deceased. The recovery rate of Telangana is now at 98.75% and the fatality rate of COVID-19 remained constant for the past three months at 0.58 %.
It is to be noted, in the South Indian region, Telangana is the only state with low single day cases of the Wuhan virus. Other states like Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, the COVID-19 situation is risky with a high number of cases and active cases above 5,000.
In addition, the Telangana Health and Public Welfare Director Dr. G. Srinivas Rao re issued a set of guidelines for COVID-19, asking people to follow the guidelines properly. He asked people to get their tests done immediately, if having COVID-19 symptoms. .
The Telangana Government also alerted people of the water borne and mosquito borne diseases like Dengue and Malaria and other viral fevers, especially when the health experts alerted India of the possible third wave of the Wuhan virus in mid October.
Meanwhile, in Telangana, of the total active Wuhan virus cases, 79.90 % cases are asymptomatic, whereas, only 20.10 % are symptomatic.
Stay tuned for further updates.
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