Hyderabad, Oct 13 (UNI) The COVID-19 cases continue to spike in Telangana with the state recording 1,708 new positive cases till 2000 hours on Monday pushing the cumulative number of cases to 2,14,792 so far.
The overall toll climbed to 1,233 till date as five more COVID-19 deaths were recorded in the past 24 hours constituting a recovery rate of 0.57 per cent as against the countrywide recovery rate of 1.5 per cent, according to a state health department bulletin on Tuesday.
The number of patients recuperated between Sunday and Monday was 2,009 taking the number of total recoveries in the state so far to 1,89,351 with a recovery rate of 88.15 while the National recovery rate was 86.8 per cent.