HYDERABAD: For the first time since the outbreak of the pandemic in March last year, the number of daily cases in a district surpassed the daily number for Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) area.
As per the bulletin released by the medical and health department on Wednesday, GHMC’s case tally of 179 new Covid-19 cases was surpassed by Khammam district which reported 180 cases.
While Khammam’s daily case numbers exceed that of Hyderabad’s by only one case, the trend is being seen as a significant one by the authorities.
In view of the continuing rise in cases, the government has decided to continue lockdown restrictions in several assembly segments of the district without relaxation, even after June 10.
Khammam, along with Warangal district, had witnessed civic body polls but the number of cases is yet to come down in the former.
Overall, the state reported 1,813 new cases of Covid-19 and 17 deaths as on Wednesday, taking the cumulative case load and death toll to 5,96,813 and 3,426 respectively.
As many 1,801 were declared recovered, taking the number of recoveries to 5,69,086.
The case fatality rate remained steady at 0.57 per cent while the recovery rate stood at 95.35 per cent.
Close to 80 per cent cases in the state are asymptomatic while rest are symptomatic.
The state continued with its high testing rate with 1,27, 896 samples tested on Wednesday, taking the total number of tests to over 1.62 crore and reaching 4.36 lakh sample testing per million population.