A week into unlock, decline in COVID cases continues

The decline in COVID-19 cases in Telangana continued a week after lockdown was lifted from June 20. The cases in second wave of the pandemic peaked between the third week of April and May first week. Gradual decline in cases have been recorded thereafter.

The State authorities imposed night time curfew from April 20, and applied lockdown from May 12 with leisure between 6 am and 10 am. After regularly extending the relief hours, the lockdown was fully lifted from June 20.

When week-wise cases are thought-about, indicators of the second wave may be famous from mid-March. The highest of 54,492 cases have been recorded in April third week and 43,839 in May first week. It declined thereafter. During the June 21-27 interval, solely 7,411 folks examined constructive for coronavirus.

On Sunday, the State recorded lower than 1,000 cases after a niche of 86 days. Only 748 folks examined constructive for the virus and one of many causes for the low detection is relatively fewer exams. While 1.1 lakh to 1.3 lakh samples are examined in a day, solely 81,405 have been examined on Sunday. The final time lower than 1,000 cases have been detected was on April 1 this yr (965 cases). Eight individuals died.

Of the 748 cases on Sunday, the very best of 121 have been from Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC), adopted by 61 in Khammam, 50 from Karimnagar and 49 from Rangareddy.

So far, the State has examined 1.83 crore samples, resulting in the detection of over 6.2 lakh cases. Of the whole, 14,302 cases have been energetic whereas 6,02,676 have recovered and three,635 folks have died.