The Cabinet took the decision after examining reports submitted by the Medical and Health department officials.
In a big development, the Telangana State Cabinet which met on Saturday has decided to lift the ongoing Coronavirus-induced lockdown completely commencing from 6 am on Sunday (June 20). There will be no night curfew either.
The Cabinet took the decision after examining reports submitted by the medical and health department officials stating that the number of Covid-19 cases in the State and the positivity rate had dropped significantly.
The spread of the virus was under complete control, the Cabinet observed and also directed the officials of all the departments to completely lift all the regulations imposed during the lockdown in the state.
“The state cabinet has decided to lift the lockdown completely. The decision has been taken to lift the lockdown by examining the reports given by medical authorities that the number of corona cases, positivity percentage has decreased significantly, corona has come into full control,” the Chief Minister’s Office said in a post on Facebook.
Telangana COVID cases
Telangana on Friday reported 1,417 new COVID-19 cases, pushing the tally to 6,10,834, while the toll rose to 3,546 with 12 more fatalities.
The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) accounted for the most number of cases with 149, followed by Rangareddy (104) and Khammam (93) districts, a state government bulletin said, providing details as of 5.30 PM on Friday.
The number of recoveries outnumbered fresh cases with 1,897 people recovering from the virus, taking the cumulative number to 5,88,259.
The number of active cases was 19,029, the bulletin said. It said 1,24,430 samples were tested on Friday, taking the total number of samples tested so far to 1,73,14,780.
The samples tested per million population was 4,65,200. The case fatality rate in the state was 0.58 per cent against 1.3 per cent at the national level.
The recovery rate in Telangana was 96.30 per cent, while it was 95.99 per cent in the country, the bulletin said.
On June 8, the Cabinet had decided to extend the lockdown for 10 days. The summer holidays for all schools and DIET colleges are also in place till June 20.
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