COVID cases rising steadily in GHMC areas
The Hindu
COVID-19 positive cases in the GHMC area are increasing steadily over the past one week although the daily count of the infectious virus cases in the State continues to be below 200. A total of 181 new positive cases were reported during the 24-hour period till 8 pm on Thursday.
One more COVIS death was reported on Thursday taking the total deaths to 1,650 till date. With 163 COVID patients declared recovered on Thursday taking the total recoveries to 2,97,195 out of the 3,00,717 positive cases reported in the State so far.
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