Telangana Sees 75 More Virus Cases

More cases linked to Tablighi Jamaat event confirmed in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka

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Telangana had a fresh spike of 75 new coronavirus infections reported on Friday, taking its tally to 229. Andhra Pradesh confirmed its first COVID-19 death, while Karnataka had four new cases, of which one died, and Kerala registered nine.

Eleven patients have died at various hospitals in Telangana, two of them on Friday, while 32 were discharged after treatment. There were 26,586 persons with a history of foreign travel and their contacts under home quarantine.

In Andhra Pradesh, it was officially confirmed that a 55year-old man who died a couple of days ago in a government hospital in Vijayawada had succumbed to the virus. This is the first coronavirus death reported in the State, where the total number of cases rose to 161, of which three had recovered.