Hyderabad, Dec 9 (TIWN) Telangana's Covid-19 tally crossed 2.75 lakh mark on Wednesday with the state adding 753 new cases during the last 24 hours.

Three more persons succumbed to the virus, taking the death toll to 1,480.

The fatality rate stands at 0.53 per cent against the national average of 1.5 per cent. According to the director of public health and family welfare, 44.96 per cent of the deaths were due to COVID while the remaining 55.04 were on account of comorbidities.

Recoveries continued to outnumber daily count of new infections as 753 people recovered from the virus during the last 24 hours, taking the cumulative recoveries to 2,66,120.

The recovery rate improved further to 96.67 per cent against the national average of 94.6 per cent.

The state now has 7,661 active COVID cases and of them 5,576 were in home or institutional isolation.

Over 90 per cent of beds in government-run hospitals treating Covid-19 in the state remained vacant.