Hyderabad: More than 6,000 COVID-19 patients are presently being treated in home isolation in Telangana and the state government is ramping up testing and the facilities to deal with the pandemic, a senior health official said on Saturday.
"After Delhi, the highest number of positive cases in-home isolation are in Telangana. While 12,000 cases have been kept in home isolation for the last one month, at present 6,552 cases are in home isolation," state Director of Public Health G Srinivasa Rao told reporters here.
Those in-home isolation are provided guidance through telemedicine, video-counseling. The patients are shifted to hospitals in emergencies, he said.
The number of active cases in the state as on Friday was 9,984.
Observing that movement of people increased after the process of unlocking began leading to a rise in cases, he said 13,534 cases were reported in June alone.
The total number of COVID-19 cases reported in Telangana as on Saturday stood at 20,462.
Stating that the number of cases increased in tune with the mobility of people, Rao asserted the virus is only a mild disease for the majority of people.
More than 90 percent of the 280 deaths reported so far were due to co-morbid conditions and among older people, he said.
The official said 6,500 tests per day can be conducted at present and that five more labs are going to start soon. Further, TrueNat, CBNAAT tests would also be conducted in districts.