Hyderabad, Nov. 22 -- Daily count of positive cases continues to be below a thousand in Telangana which reported 873 fresh COVID-19 cases until 2000 hours on Saturday taking the cumulative coronavirus cases in the state to 2,63,526 so far.

With four more COVID-19 deaths reported in the past 24 hours, the state's overall toll so far rose to 1,430 constituting a case recovery rate of 0.54 per cent as against the countrywide mortality rate of 1.5 per cent, according to a state health department bulletin on Sunday.

The number of total recoveries in the state till date stood at 2.50,453 as 1,296 people have recovered from coronavirus between Friday and Saturday translating into a recovery rate of 94.03 per cent while the national recovery rate...