Hyderabad, Sep 24 (UNI) The upward swing in the COVID-19 positive cases continued in Telangana as 2,176 fresh cases were registered in the state till 2000 hours on Wednesday pushing the overall case tally to 1,79,246 so far.
With eight more patients succumbing to the contagious Coronavirus in the last 24 hours, the overall toll climbed to 1,070 constituting a case fatality rate of 0.59 per cent as against the countrywide mortality rate of 1.59 per cent, a state health department bulletin said on Thursday.
Between Tuesday and Wednesday, 2004 patients had recuperated from the deadly virus pushing the total number of recoveries in the state to 1,48,139 with a recovery rate of 82.64 per cent while the National recovery rate stood at 81.42 per cent.