<span style="color: #222222;">In Telangana, over one lakh 20 thousand health workers have been vaccinated so far while the COVID vaccination is underway smoothly. The vaccination for health workers and staff in the private sector in the state will be commencing on coming Monday. According to State Public Health Director Dr Srinivas Rao, no case of severe health issues reported so far after vaccination.<br />''<br />''Meanwhile, the state reported 221 fresh COVID cases during the past 24 hours. With this, the number of COVID cases reported in the state reached to 2 lakh 93 thousand 56. The recovery rate improved to 98.24 per cent with 431 more people recovering yesterday. This took the number of recovered people so far in the state to 2 lakh 87 thousand 899. A total of 1588 deaths have been reported so far, following two more succumbing during the past 24 hours.</span><br />