Telangana detects more 1,597 new infections of COVID-19

Telangana reported 1,597 new Covid-19 cases and 11 fatalities on Wednesday, pushing the toll so far to 386 and the cumulative positive cases to 39,342. In the last 24 hours, health authorities conducted tests on 13,642 samples, out of which 12,045 tested negative.

On Wednesday, authorities also discharged 1159 persons, which has taken the



overall number of recoveries to 25,999 and the number of active cases to 12,958.

The areas under GHMC, Rangareddy and Medchal continued to remain the top three districts with a large load of Covid-19 positive cases. As many as 796 persons from areas under GHMC, 212 from Rangareddy and 115 persons from Medchal have tested positive on Wednesday.