TS logs 2,256 cases, 14 deaths

The surge in cases continued with 2,256 people testing positive for Covid-19 and 14 others dying of the disease.

The overall caseload stood at 77,513 on Friday evening and the toll at 615, according to the Covid-19 bulletin issued by the state health department on Saturday.

The bulletin said 15,830 persons were under treatment at home and the state had a total of 22,568 active cases.

The state tested 23,322 samples on Friday, and the overall test count reached 5,90,306.

Of the deaths, those attributed to Covid-19 is at 46.13 per cent and due to co-morbid conditions 53.87 per cent.

This is because those in the age group of 31 to 40 years have 25 per cent and those in 21 to 30 years have 22 per cent of the infection.

Those in the younger age groups are severely affected and fatality rate in this age group is also high.

In the districts where there were a total of 1,792 cases noted. Only those who have SARI (severe acute respiratory infection) are being tested. Those with mild infections are in isolation wards and if their symptoms are aggravating then testing is carried out.

District hospitals and public health centres are having a huge caseload and most of the serious cases are being sent to Hyderabad for treatment.

The Covid-19 cases are at an high in Warangal Urban at 187, Ranga Reddy

181, Medhcal-Malkajgiri at

138 and Karimnagar at

101. Government and private doctors who are treating these cases say that the pattern of the disease is more like that of the city and in districts too those who can afford are coming faster while others are coming late which is leading to severity.