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Hospitals are among those who tested positive for the infection since Thursday. All of them are undergoing treatment at Beliaghata ID Hospital,” said a health department official.
The positivity rate improved slightly to 7.04 per cent from Thursday’s 7.30 per cent. Overall, 195 more people have recovered from the disease, taking the total number of recoveries in the state to 19,99,550, the bulletin said.
Accordingly, the number of active cases increased to 3,480 from 3,020 on Thursday. The bulletin said that 255,059,507 samples have been tested so far in the state, which includes 9,327 samples since Thursday.
Meanwhile, Sikkim’s Covid-19 tally rose to 39,203 on Friday as three more people tested positive for the infection, a health bulletin said.
New cases were reported in East Sikkim. Sikkim now has 14 active cases, while 37,985 people have recovered from the disease, 453 patients have succumbed to the infection and 751 have migrated to other states so far.
The Himalayan state has so far tested over 3.41 lakh samples for COVID-19, including 140 in the last 24 hours.
Telangana reported 493 new Covid-19 cases on Friday, taking the total caseload to 7,98,125. Hyderabad district recorded the maximum number of cases in the state capital region with 366 new infections, while its neighboring Medchal-Malkajgiri and Ranga Reddy districts saw 34 and 40 cases respectively.
A bulletin of the Health Department said that 219 people have recovered from the infection and the total number of people who have recovered so far is 7,90,692. The recovery rate came down to 99.07 percent.
There were no fresh deaths due to the infectious disease and the death toll remained at 4,111. The bulletin said 29,084 samples were tested on Friday. The number of active cases stood at 3,322. The state has been witnessing a rise in daily cases since the beginning of June.
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