Hyderabad, Jan. 23 -- Telangana's COVID-19 tally climbed to 2,93,056 till date with 221 new coronavirus infections registered in the state until 2000 hrs on Friday.

The state recorded two fresh fatalities due to COVID-19 in the last 24 hours taking the total death toll to 1,588 translating a case fatality rate of 0.54 per cent as against the countrywide mortality rate of 1.4 per cent, according to a state health department bulletin on Saturday.

In all, 431 people have recovered from coronavirus statewide between Thursday and Friday pushing the total number of recoveries so far to 2,87,899 constituting a recovery rate of 98.24 per cent while the national recovery rate was 96.8 per cent.

The active cases in the state presently stand at 3,5...