Hyderabad, Aug 20 (UNI) Edging towards the one lakh mark, Telangana reported 1,724 COVID-19 positive cases till 2000 hours on Wednesday night pushing the cumulative positive cases to 97,424 positive cases so far.
The overall death toll mounted to 729 with 10 more patients succumbing to the contagious virus in the last 24 hours with case mortality rate of 0.74 per cent as against the National fatality rate of 1.91 per cent, according to a state health department bulletin on Thursday.
Between Tuesday and Wednesday night,1,195 patients had recovered taking the total recoveries to 75,186 constituting a recovery rate of 77.17 per cent, while the country-wide recovery rate is 73.64 per cent.