State sees 37 deaths and over 11,000 new cases

The state reported 37 more deaths and 11,698 new COVID infections in the 24 hours ended Saturday morning.

The cumulative balance rose to 10.20.926 and the toll reached 7.616. The recovery rate dropped to 91.27% and the death rate is 0.75%.

Recovery rose to 9,31,839 as 4,421 patients recovered on the previous day. The number of active cases rose to 81,471 and most of the patients were in isolation at home.

On the previous day, 50,972 samples were tested with a positivity rate of 22.95%. The positivity rate of 1.59 crore samples tested so far was 6.41%.

New deaths

East Godavari and Nellore each reported six new deaths, while Anantapur and Chittoor each reported four new deaths last day. Srikakulam and West Godavari reported three deaths each, and Guntur, Krishna, Kurnool, Visakhapatnam and Vizianagaram reported two deaths each. Prakasam reported a death.

Four districts reported more than 1,000 new cases. These include Srikakulam (1,641), Guntur (1,581), Chittoor (1,306) and Anantapur (1,066). They were followed by Visakhapatnam (947), East Godavari (909), Nellore (902), Kurnool (820), Krishna (631), Vizianagaram (592), Kadapa (549), Prakasam (462) and West Godavari (292). .

Srikakulam, whose infections have been increasing rapidly, now has 10,366 active cases. Chittoor has the highest number of active cases at 12,171.

The district numbers are as follows: East Godavari (1,34,316), Chittoor (1,08,344), West Godavari (95,935), Guntur (94,306), Anantapur (75,789), Nellore (73,039), Visakhapatnam (72,686), Kurnool (71,642 ), Prakasam (68,041), Kadapa (60,204), Srikakulam (59,498), Krishna (58,178) and Vizianagaram (46,053).

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