 "A health worker collects swab sample of a passenger for Covid-19 test, amid fear of spread of the Omicron variant of Covid, at Krantiveer Sangoli Rayanna (KSR) railway station in Bengaluru (Photo: PTI)")
Telangana on Tuesday reported 4,559 fresh COVID-19 cases taking the tally to 7,43,354 while the death toll rose to 4,077 with two more fatalities.
The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) reported the highest number of daily cases with 1,450, followed by Medchal Malkajgiri (432) and Rangareddy (322) districts, a state government bulletin said, providing details as of 5.30 PM today.
The state had registered 3,980 new cases on Monday.
A total of 1,961 people recovered from the infection in the last 24 hours. With this, the cumulative number of recoveries rose to 7,03,008.
Active cases stood at 36,269, the bulletin said.
A total of 1,13,670 samples were tested today and the total number examined till date was over 3.15 crore. The samples tested per million population were over 8.48 lakh.
The case fatality and recovery rates were at 0.55 per cent and 94.57 per cent, respectively.
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