Up to 9,247 cases of caseload were fired in the Srikakulam district. 1,017 cases were reported on Friday alone.
The district’s total number of cases is now 58,152.
Currently, 7,625 patients are isolated at home while 768 people have been hospitalized. Up to 854 people were admitted to COVID Care Centers.
With an unprecedented number of positive cases every day, the district administration is making efforts to add more hospital beds. There are currently only 2,026 beds available in the hospitals identified by COVID-19. At least 5,000 beds are needed in the district immediately to cope with the situation.
Economic activity in the district declined sharply and commercial establishments, including nationalized banks, curtailed their working hours.
Srikakulam Lead Bank Manager GBBD Hariprasad said banks would only stay open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and urged customers to work with staff. Patnala Srinivasa Rao, head of the Srikakulam Cloth Merchants Association, urged all shopkeepers to close their shops by 6 p.m. every day to minimize the spread of COVID-19 in the district.
The organizer of the BJP Tekkali unit, Hanumanthu Udaybhaskar, asked the collector J. Nivas to carry out a special sanitation drive in villages as many migrant workers had returned from major cities such as Mumbai and Delhi, where the pandemic has wreaked havoc in recent weeks.