Owing to the Diwali festivities of Saturday, Telangana tested very few individuals which resulted in only 661 infections getting registered. Although this is considerably lesser than the average tally of usual days, the fact that there were fewer tests due to the celebration cannot be ruled out.
Test results on Sunday showed 661 cases, taking up the total number of infections in the south-Indian state to 2,57,374.
According to reports, government and private labs conducted merely 21,264 covid-19 tests on suspected patients compared to the 40,000-45,000 of regular days. This suggests that the total tests conducted were around 50% of those done on weekdays.
Within the same span of time, the virus claimed three more lives of patients, increasing the fatality figure to 1,404. This death count when put in percentages stands much lesser than India’s average which is 1.5% compared to Telangana’s 0.54%.
Out of all the fatalities, 44.96% people died due to the coronavirus alone while 55.04% patients had added comorbidities too that engulfed them.
In Telangana, the state’s capital owned majority of the cases as 167 new infections were reported here. Rangareddy came next with 57 new cases while Medchal Malkajgiri and Nalgonda followed the district with 45 and 34 new cases each respectively.
During this 24-hour time frame, which completed at 8 on Saturday evening, 1,637 more patients recovered from the illness, said the daily media report of Public Health and Family Welfare Department.
Telangana continues to have a good recovery rate as compared to the rest of the nation with the recovery rate improving to 93.46% when held up against the 93.1% of India’s average.
The patients currently active with the infection are 15,425 in the state while 12,899 of them are getting treated in their homes or covid isolation centres.
With these nearly 21,000 tests, the state’s total number of tests conducted stand at 48,74,433.
Presently, there are 18 state-operated laboratories, 50 private ones and 1,076 Rapid Antigen Test (RAT) centres conducting tests on individuals.
From the 21,264 sample tests carried out within the past 24 hours, 19,703 tests were conducted in state-operated labs while 1,561 tested in private laboratories.
Samples tested per million population ratio increased to 1,30,962. The daily testing target for Telangana is 5,600/ day opposed to the WHO’s set benchmark aim of 140 million tests per day.
Telangana’s cumulative 2,57,374 cases until now has 70% asymptomatic patients with the rest 30% symptomatic. This corresponds to 1,80,162 people without any symptoms yet positive for covid-19 and 77,212 patients positive with symptoms.
