<span style="color: #222222;">Telangana state reported 394 fresh COVID cases during the past 24 hours. With this, the total COVID cases reported in the state has gone up to over 2 lakh 87 thousand. The state conducted over 40 thousand tests yesterday.<br />'' <br />'' The recovery rate improved to  97.58 per cent with 574 recoveries yesterday. This took the number of recovered people so far in the state to over 2 lakh 80 thousand.<br />'' <br />''<br />''A total of 1549 deaths have been reported so far, following three more persons succumbing during the past 24 hours.</span><br />