Telangana COVID-19 Bulletin: GHMC Tops The List

HYDERABAD: Telangana's COVID-19 tally rose to 2,50,331 and the toll to 1,377 with 1440 new cases and six more deaths, the state government said on Sunday.The number of active cases stood at 19,890, while as many as 17,135 were in home or institutional isolation, a bulletin said, providing data as on November 7. 

Of the fresh cases, Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) accounted for the maximum infections of 278, followed by Medchal Malkajgiri (133) and Rangareddy (112) districts.

 A  total of 42,673 samples were tested on November 7, taking the cumulative number of specimens examined to 46,18,470.The samples tested per million population was1,24,085, the bulletin said.The case fatality rate in the state was 0.55 per cent, while it was 1.5 per cent at the national level. The recovery rate was 91.50 per cent, while it was 92.4 per cent in the country.

Active COVID-19 cases in country stand at 5,12,665, while 78,68,968 people have recovered from the disease so far. Meanwhile the nation saw a single day rise of 45,674 new COVID-19 cases pushing  India's virus caseload to 85,07,754 and with 559 fatalities the death toll to 1,26,121 as per a Government update.