COVID kills 35, nearly 9,000 new infections reported in AP

Andhra Pradesh reported a staggering 35 deaths from COVID and 8,987 infections in the 24 hours that ended Tuesday morning. It was the highest daily toll since October 15 and the highest one-day number since September 13.

Very worrying was the 23.65% daily positivity rate, which is the highest ever during the pandemic.

The cumulative balance rose to 9,76,987 and the toll reached 7,472. When 3,116 patients recovered last day, the number of active cases exceeded fifty thousand, reaching 53,889 for the first time in six months.

The recovery rate dropped to 93.73% while the number of recoveries hit 9.15,626, with 3,116 recoveries being made the previous day.

Testing

Last day only 37,992 samples were tested and the overall positivity rate for the 1,575 Crore samples was 6.20%.

New deaths and cases

Most of the deaths were reported in three counties. Nellore reported eight deaths last day, while Chittoor and Kadapa reported five deaths each. Anantapur, Krishna, Srikakulam reported three each, and Kurnool and Prakasam reported two each. One death each was reported in East Godavari, Guntur, Visakhapatnam and Vizianagaram.

Nellore also reported the highest daily number of 1,347 infections. Srikakulam also reported 1,344 new infections, while Guntur and Chittoor reported 1,202 and 1,063 new infections, respectively. East Godavari reported 851, Kurnool 758, Visakhapatnam 657, Krishna 441, Vizianagaram 330, Prakasam 305, Kadapa 297, Anantapur 275, and West Godavari reported 99.

The district numbers were as follows: East Godavari (1,30,789), Chittoor (1,02,499), West Godavari (95,257), Guntur (88,710), Anantapur (71,884), Nellore (69,438), Visakhapatnam (69,175), Kurnool (67,317 ), Prakasam (66,570), Kadapa (58,799), Krishna (55,743), Srikakulam (54,025) and Vizianagaram (43,886).

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