Hyderabad, Sep 17 (UNI) With 2,159 new Coronavirus positive cases, Telangana's COVID-19 count rose to 1,65,003 till 2000 hours on Wednesday night, while the overall toll breached the 1,000 mark to reach 1005 with nine more patients succumbing to the contagious virus during the last 24 hours.
The state's case fatality rate stands at 0.60 per cent as against the countrywide mortality rate of 1.62 per cent,a state health department bulletin said on Thursday.
In all, 2,108 patients had recovered during the last 24 hours pushing the total number of recoveries to 1,33,555 constituting a recovery rate of 80.94 per cent surpassing the National average of 78.59 per cent.