With over 20,000 cases, Andhra Pradesh’s Covid-19 surge continues

  • | Saturday | 22nd May, 2021

Altogether 20,811 patients were declared cured and discharged. There are currently 2,09,156 active cases with 13,23,019 cumulative recoveries and 9,904 deaths.

Andhra Pradesh reported 20,937 new Covid-19 cases on Friday, taking the cumulative caseload to 15,42,079. The toll increased to 9,904 as 104 more patients succumbed to the pandemic.

As many as 15 deaths were reported in Chittoor, 10 each in Prakasam and Vizianagaram, nine each in East Godavari, Nellore and Visakhapatnam, eight in Krishna, seven each in Anantapur, Kurnool, Guntur and Srikakulam, and six in West Godavari.

Altogether 20,811 patients were declared cured and discharged. There are currently 2,09,156 active cases with 13,23,019 cumulative recoveries and 9,904 deaths.

Of the new infections, East Godavari reported 3,475 cases, followed by Chittoor (3,063). Officials tested 92,231 samples to detect 20,937 cases, a positivity rate of about 23%.

Meanwhile, various community health centres and welfare hostels across rural Chittoor district have been converted into Covid care centres (CCCs), as most hospitals in urban areas are over-stretched. Panchayat raj minister Peddireddi Ramachandra Reddy along with Chittoor MP N Reddeppa inaugurated the new CCCs at Sadum and Punganur on Friday.

District collector M Hari Narayana said “The community health centre at Punganur will be upgraded into a full-fledge Covid care facility within the next three days,” he said.


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