The Andhra pradesh health officials has informed that the state has so far tested 1,00,17,126 samples of which 8,67,683 tested positive and 91,49,443 negative. In the last 24 hours 54,710 new tests has been made. The health officials revealed that the distribution as RT-PCR tests, 7,41,711 truenat tests and 40,36,936 rapid tests.
Andhra Pradesh tops among the big states in India with 1,87,587 tests per million population whereas the national average is 98,004 per million. The state's positivity rate stands at 8.66 per cent and recovery rate at 98.23 per cent. Extensive testing and timely treatment, reduces the mortality rate and is currently 0.81% which is lower than the national average of 1.46%. Starting with zero testing facilities, the state government in no time improvised its health infrastructure and established 150 testing laboratories including government, private, and Truenat labs by the month of June along with dedicated hospitals for treating Covid patients. Apart from 15 testing facility centres, Covid-19 tests are being conducted in four private labs, 44 VRDL labs, 90 Truenat labs, 6CBNAT, 5NACO and 5 CLIA labs.
A decentralised model of sample collection centres was followed, 1,519 facilities acted as the sample collection centres ranging from teaching hospitals to primary health centres, Mobile RRT teams covered the nook and corner of the state prioritising containment zones for sample collection. For better testing facilities, 122 State owned VERA and APSRTC buses were set up as sample collection mobile units. The total number of recoveries at the state is 8,52,298 including 3,787 recovery in last 24 hours.
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