<span style="color: #222222;">In Telangana, surge in the number of COVID cases continued in the state. The state has reported record number of Four thousand, Four hundred, Forty-Six fresh cases during the past 24 hours. With 14 hundred 14 more people recovering from COVID-19, the total recoveries in the state have gone up to Three lakh, 11 thousand, Eight.<br />''<br />''This brought down the recovery rate 89.8 per cent from over 98 per cent about a month ago. According to the State Covid Bulletin, 12 more persons succumbed to COVID-19 and other comorbidities taking the total death toll in the state to 18 hundred Nine. The state has currently over 33 thousand active cases and over 22 thousand of them are in home isolation. The number of COVID cases reported in the state so far has gone up to Three lakh, 46 thousand, Three hundred 31.<br />''<br />''Telangana state is expected to see a peak in the COVID cases that are being reported every day by 1st week of next month. State Director Public Health Dr G Srinivas Rao informed AIR Correspondent that the spread of COVID in the second wave is rampant.  <br />''<br />''Stating that Telangana state Government has geared up to tackle the situation, Dr Sriniavs Rao said decentralised treatment protocols. He said the hospital bed capacity in the state has increased to 60 thousand from the 33 thousand a few months ago.<br />''<br />''He further said there is no dearth for infrastructure and medical facilities. He reiterated that the spread of COVID second wave can be contained only by following COVID appropriate Behaviour and getting vaccination.<br />''<br />''Meanwhile, the GHMC area reported 598 fresh COVID-19 cases during the past 24 hours. Medchal Malkajgiri district reported over four hundred while Rangareddy and Nizamabad districts reported over three hundred cases each. Sangareddy, Jagityal, Nirmal, Kamareddy, Karimnagar, Mahabubnagar, Khammam, Mancheryal and Warangal Urban districts reported a considerably high number of fresh cases each.  <br />''<br />''Meanwhile, over one lakh 75 thousand people have been vaccinated on a single day yesterday in the state. The number of vaccination centres also increased to 1468. With this, over 28 lakh people have been vaccinated so far in the state.</span><br />