Telangana’s everyday Novel Coronavirus or COVID-19 cases are increasing rapidly. In the past 24 hours the State reported 4,009 fresh positive cases, 14 deaths and 1,878 recoveries from the Novel Coronavirus.
The updated figure was released by the Telangana Health Ministry through a media bulletin, on the 18th of April at 8:00 P.M. The media bulletin is being released on a regular basis to update the COVID-19 situation in the State.
According to the released bulletin, of the total 4,009 cases, the highest cases of 705 were from the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) limits, followed by 363 from Medchal Malkajgiri, 336 from Rangareddy, 264 from Sangareddy, 175 from Jagtial, 135 from Karimnagar, 125 from Siddipet, 115 from Kamareddy, 113 from Khammam, 111 from Mancherial, 90 from Nirmal, 80 from Rajanna Sircilla, 72 from Adilabad, 69 from Suryapet, 65 from Vikarabad, 60 from Medak, 49 each from Bhadradri Kothagudem and Warangal Rural.
The remaining cases were 39 each from Wanaparthy and Peddapalli, 36 from Mahabubabad, 36 from Mahabubabad, 34 each from Jangaon and Narayanpet, 33 from Nagarkurnool, 32 from Jogulamba Gadwal, 26 from Mulugu, 22 from Jayashankar Bhupalpally and 20 cases from Yadadri Bhongir.
In addition, between the 17th and the 18th of April, the Telangana Health Department conducted close to 83,089 tests for COVID-19, taking the cumulative total to 1,18,20,842 till the 19th of April.
With the aforementioned data, Telangana has 3,55,433 positive cases, of which 3,14,441 are recovered/discharged cases, 1,878 are deceased cases and 39,154 are active cases of the Novel Coronavirus.
With the rise in the number of positive cases, the recovery rate of the state slipped to 88.46 % from the previous 90 %. The fatality rate of the State also increased to 0.51% from the 0.45 %.
