Hyderabad, May 10 -- Amir Ullah Khan

Nahia Hussain

In Telangana, the number of cases has peaked at 4000 daily in June 2020. The decline then onwards was gradual till we recorded 2700 cases on August 31, 2020. The numbers after August started coming down rapidly and on March 3, 2021, we only had 150 positive cases. However, this was the calm before the storm. Almost immediately after, the numbers started going up. A 1000 on April 1, 7500 on May 1 and then a slight decline to about 500 daily over the last few days.

The fact that India was headed towards another COVID-19 surge became quite apparent by the second week of March 2021 as the number of cases rose steadily, as did the number of deaths per million by the end of March. Post-Febru...