Mar 03, 2021, 11:20 IST Senior public health officials urged people not to be slack in taking precautions, as the virus is very much in the community. Hyderabad: States grapple with an upsurge in Covid-19 cases, so far there has been no sign of a similar second wave of Covid infections in Telangana. New variants of SARS-CoV-2 are being blamed for the rise in Covid infections. Maharashtra and Kerala, as of Tuesday account for 75 percent of the total Covid infections in the country, Telangana continued to have a lower active caseload and higher recovery rate. Telangana, however, has the potential to lull the general public into complacency which could prove to be costly. While confirming that there are no signs of a second wave, senior public health officials have urged people to show no signs of slackness, as the virus is very much still there in the community.