Telangana's Covid-19 recovery rate has crossed 97 per cent with 643 people recovering from the virus during the last 24 hours, officials said on Sunday. The state continues to see more recoveries than daily count of new infections. With the latest recoveries, the cumulative number rose to 2,73,013.
Telangana's recovery rate of 97.01 per cent is higher than the national average of 95.5 per cent.
The state reported 592 new positive cases during the last 24 hours, taking the tally to 2,81,414.
Three more persons succumbed to the virus during the same period, pushing the toll to 1,513.
The state's Covid fatality rate remains at 0.53 per cent against the national average of 1.5 per cent.
According to the Director of Public Health and Family Welfare, 44.96 per cent of the deaths were due to Covid while the remaining 55.04 per cent were on account of comorbidities.
The state now has 6,888 active cases and of them 4,719 are in home or institutional isolation.
Over 90 per cent of beds in government-run and private hospitals treating Covid-19 in the state remained vacant.