The incidence of COVID-19 infections is increasing rapidly in the state while a limited number of samples continue to be tested daily. The daily number has increased by a thousand in the past four days and the samples tested remain at around 35,000.
With 7,224 new infections and 15 deaths last Saturday morning, the state witnessed the pandemic’s highest daily positivity rate of 20.12%. Only 35,907 samples were tested during the reporting period.
The one-day balance was the highest in the last 203 days since September 26th.
The total was 9.5 lakh, reaching 9.55,455 as over 50,000 infections were reported in the last 15 days, of which 51.63% were reported in four districts – Chittoor 9,576 cases (17.2%), Guntur 8,494 cases (15.26%), Krishna 6,043 and Visakhapatnam 4,621 cases.
The positivity rate of the 4.96 lakh samples tested to detect the 50,000 cases was also high at 10.25%. The overall positivity rate of 1,564 Crore samples tested increased to 6.11%.
Meanwhile, the number of active cases has exceeded 40,000 and reached 40,469, despite 2,332 patients recovering on the previous day. The recovery rate and number of restores are 94.99% and 9.07,598, respectively. The death toll reached 7,388 with a death rate of 0.77%.
New cases, deaths
Chittoor reported four deaths last day, Nellore three, Visakhapatnam and Kurnool two each. Guntur, Krishna, Kadapa, and Vizianagaram each reported one death.
Chittoor also reported the highest one-day number of 1,051 infections. This was followed by East Godavari (906), Guntur (903), Srikakulam (662), Nellore (624), Prakasam (588), Kurnool (507), Krishna (493), Visakhaptanm (470), Anantapur (420), Vizianagaram ( 304), Kadapa (200) and West Godavari (96).
The district numbers were as follows: East Godavari (1,29,212), Chittoor (99,083), West Godavari (95,057), Guntur (85,766), Anantapur (71,148), Visakhapatnam (67,384), Nellore (67,003), Prakasam (65,671) Kurnool (65,396), Kadapa (58,110), Krishna (54,666), Srikakulam (50,876) and Vizianagaram (43,188).