India News | 1,417 New COVID-19 Cases, 12 Deaths in Telangana
Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. Telangana on Friday reported 1,417 new COVID-19 cases, pushing the tally to 6,10,834, while the toll rose to 3,546 with 12 more fatalities.
Hyderabad, June 18 (PTI) Telangana on Friday reported 1,417 new COVID-19 cases, pushing the tally to 6,10,834, while the toll rose to 3,546 with 12 more fatalities.
The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) accounted for the most number of cases with 149, followed by Rangareddy (104) and Khammam (93) districts, a state government bulletin said, providing details as of 5.30 PM on Friday.
The number of recoveries outnumbered fresh cases with 1,897 people recovering from the virus, taking the cumulative number to 5,88,259.
The number of active cases was 19,029, the bulletin said.
It said 1,24,430 samples were tested on Friday, taking the total number of samples tested so far to 1,73,14,780.
The samples tested per million population was 4,65,200.
The case fatality rate in the state was 0.58 per cent against 1.3 per cent at the national level.
The recovery rate in Telangana was 96.30 per cent, while it was 95.99 per cent in the country, the bulletin said. PTI
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