The Wuhan virus, also known as the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) cases in Telangana, crossed 6.50 lakhs. On the evening of the 11th of August, the Telangana Health Department released a media bulletin and updates about the COVID-19 situation in Telangana.
According to the released bulletin, the State witnessed a total of 482 new cases, 12 cases less compared to the previous day’s single day cases of 494.
Besides the new cases, Telangana reported 2 fatalities and 455 recoveries from the deadly virus. Highlighting recoveries, compared to previous above 500 recoveries in a day, on the 11th of August, Telangana reported low recovery of only 455 cases.
With this, Telangana now has 6,50,835 positive cases, of which 8,137 are active cases, 6,38,865 are recovered/discharged cases and 3,833 are deceased. It is to be noted, in the past 24 hours with additional new cases, the active cases increased to 8,137 from the previous 8,112.
The new cases were confirmed after conducting COVID-19 tests of 88,164 samples, taking the cumulative total to 2.30 crores till date.
According to sources, the highest number of cases have been reported from the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) region, areas of Medchal Malkajgiri, Khammam, Warangal and Karimnagar. The GHMC reported the highest number of COVID-19 (82) cases in the past 24 hours, followed by Medchal Malkajgiri (23) and Rangareddy (25) cases. In addition, Karimnagar, Nalgonda and Warangal Urban are also the regions which have been reporting a rise in the COVID-19 cases since the past few days.
Meanwhile, with a slight fall in the COVID-19 cases, the active containment zones also decreased to 25 from the previous 29 with no micro containment zones in Hyderabad.
The recovery rate of Telangana is constant at 98.16% from the past 48 hours and the fatality rate of COVID-19 at 0.58 %.
It is to be noted, of the total active cases, 79.90 % cases are asymptomatic, whereas, only 20.10 % are symptomatic. In addition, a total of 1.60 crore COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered in Telangana till date.
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