Daily cases of corona lead to a surge in figures of Corona tally. Belying the expectations of the health authorities, the graph of COVID-19 of Andhra Pradesh continued its explosive spree as 9,393 more cases were added to push the overall tally further up to 3.25 lakh on Thursday. After Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh is the only state reporting a large number of Covid-19 cases daily, sometimes close to 10,000, over the past few days.
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The state health officials were initially hopeful that the infection positivity rate would be brought down below five percent by the end of July but later they reset it to mid-August. “The peak is continuing and it may take a couple of more weeks for the curve to reverse,” a top official of the health department was quoted saying. The health department is constantly trying its best to curb the spread but still, the surge continues.
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Also, the coronavirus fatalities continued their upward spiral, crossing the mark of 3,000 with the addition of 95 fresh deaths in the last 24 hours. The latest bulletin said 8,846 patients recovered and were discharged from hospitals. The state now has 87,177 active cases after a total of 2.35 lakh coronavirus patients recovered and 3,001 succumbed so far. The infection positivity rate maintained its ascent and went further up to 10.58 percent.
