Telangana’s Covid recovery rate improves to 98.83%

Hyderabad, Feb 8 : Telangana’s Covid recovery rate improved further to 98.83 per cent with 197 more recoveries during the last 24 hours.
The state has been consistently witnessing more recoveries than the new cases. The recovery rate is higher than the national average of 97.2 per cent.
The fresh recoveries pushed the cumulative number to 2,92,229.
According to the director of public health and family welfare, the number of active cases dropped to 1,842 including 751 who are in home/institutional isolation.
The state reported 101 new Covid-19 cases and two deaths during the last 24 hours. The new cases pushed the state’s cumulative tally to 2,95,682 while the death toll moved to 1,611.
The fatality rate remained 0.54 per cent against the national average of 1.4 per cent. While 44.96 per cent of the deaths occurred due to Covid, 55.04 per cent had comorbidities.