The state reported two COVID-19 deaths and 175 new infections in the 24 hours ending Saturday morning as a spike in daily infections continued in many districts. Two deaths occurred in Anantapur and Chittoor districts.
While the death toll rose to 7,182, it increased to 8,91,563. The mortality rate was 0.81%.
Despite the recovery of 132 patients during the period, the number of active cases increased to 1,268. The total number of recoveries increased to 8,83,113. The recovery rate came down marginally to 99.05%.
During the 24-hour period, 40,448 samples were tested with a positivity rate of 0.39%. So far 1.449 crore samples were tested with a positivity rate of 6.15%. The number of tests per million reached 2.71 lakhs.
Chittoor leads the chart
Chittoor once again reported the highest number of new infections (40) followed by East Godavari with 31 new cases.
They were followed by Krishna (24), Visakhapatnam (20), Guntur (15), Kadapa (9), Prakasam (9), Anantapur (7), Srikakulam (6), Vizianagaram (6), Nellore (5) and West. Godavari (3). There were no new cases in Kurnool district.
Overall district wise elevation was as follows: East Godavari (1,24,614), West Godavari (94,377), Chittoor (87,980), Guntur (75,863), Anantapur (67,848), Nellore (62,533), Prakasam (62,241), Kurnool (60,947) , Visakhapatnam (60,218), Kadapa (55,455), Krishna (49,120), Srikakulam (46,293) and Vizianagaram (41,179).
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