There was a rise in COVID cases again with 556 cases reported on Friday as against 512 cases the previous day. Out of this, 417 cases were from Hyderabad capital region and surrounding areas, taking the overall active case load to 4,955 with recoveries at 652 as against 543 the previous day.
The number of patients hospitalised continues to be 89 — 68 in private and 21 in government facilities.
Tests have been conducted for 26,671 samples and results of 451 are awaited. There are no official deaths and the count remains at 4,111. The cumulative cases since March 2020 has gone up to 8.08 lakh and recoveries to about 8 lakh.