HYDERABAD: Telangana on Saturday recorded 2,270 new cases of Covid-19 and 18 deaths and the state has 29,208 active cases, going below the 30,000 mark for the first time in the last one and-a half months.
With this, the total count of cases now stand at 5,89,734 while the death toll stands at 3,364.
A total of 3,762 patients were declared recovered on Saturday, taking the total count of recovered patients to 5,57,162.
The case fatality rate (CFR) stands at 0.57%, increasing from 0.5% at the beginning of May.
The recovery rate, meanwhile, has improved to 94.47% now, after having touched 82% over a month back.
The number of active containment zones in the state stood at 205 on Saturday.
Of these, nine containment zones are in Hyderabad.
On Saturday, 1,38,182 samples were tested for the novel coronavirus.
Telangana has completed testing 1.57 crore samples and has now reached 4.23 lakh sample testing per million population.
GHMC area recorded 245 new cases on Saturday, while neighbouring Medchal-Malkajgiri recorded 80 cases and Rangareddy recorded 92 cases.