The COVID-19 tally in Andhra Pradesh reached 1.96 lakh on Thursday as another 10,328 new cases were added on Thursday. The total number of active patients in the state is 82,166 as of Thursday. All total of 8,516 patients had been discharged from hospitals in the last 24 hours, the latest bulletin said. With this, a total of 1,12,870 patients in the state have recovered from COVID-19 so far. The COVID-19 death toll in the state rose by 72 to 1,753. With a total of 22.99 lakh samples tested till date, the infection positivity rate climbed further up to 8.56 %.
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The state showed an increase in recovery rate at 57.36 %, while the mortality rate slid marginally by 0.01 percent to 0.89 %. The situation in East Godavari has remained serious, with another 1,351 cases reported in the district in the last 24 hours ending at 9 am on Thursday. This was followed by Kurnool which registered 1,285 new cases, and Anantapur with 1,112 new cases. Guntur registered 868 fresh cases, West Godavari 798, Nellore 788, Visakhapatnam 781, Chittoor 755, Srikakulam 682 and Kadapa 604. East Godavari and Anantapur districts also reported ten COVID-19 deaths each, as pe figures, Guntur had nine cases and Chittoor eight.
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Krishna, Nellore and Prakasam reported six casualties each, Visakhapatnam four, Kadapa, Vizianagaram and West Godavari three each. Kurnool and Srikakulam accounted for two new death cases each. State Energy Minister Balineni Srinivasa Reddy has reportedly tested positive for coronavirus and was admitted to Apollo Hospital in Hyderabad for treatment.
