Rising COVID-19 cases are cause for concern

The state has reported 368 new COVID-19 infections in the 24 hours ending on Sunday morning. However, no deaths occurred during this period.

The increasing number of infections during this time in 2020 forced the central government to implement a lockdown. A similar situation now prevails.

New cases pushed the tally to 8,93,734. The number of active cases also increased to 2,188.

During the 24 hours, 263 patients were recovered, their total number being 8,84,357. The recovery rate was 98.95%. The toll stood at 7,189.

The daily positivity rate of the tests conducted was more than 1%. In the last one day, 31,138 samples were tested, and 1.18% of them turned positive. The overall positivity rate of 1.473 crore samples tested so far has come down to 6.06%.

Meanwhile, the weekly tally was the highest ever this year. Between 15 and 21 March, 1,873 cases were reported. Only 429 cases were reported between 15 February and 21 February. The figure between January 3 and 10 was 1,834.

This moves the epidemic curve to the position it was at the end of 2020.

After Chittoor, Guntur is witnessing a steady increase in daily infections.

It reported 79 infections in the last one day. This was followed by Kurnool (49), Anantapur (40), Chittoor (40), Visakhapatnam (39), Krishna (37), East Godavari (20), Nellore (20), Kadapa (10), Srikakulam (10), Vijayanagaram ( 9), West Godavari (9) and Prakasam (6).

Overall district wise heights were as follows: East Godavari (1,24,823), West Godavari (94,409), Chittoor (88,389), Guntur (76,273), Anantapur (67,986), Nellore (62,614), Prakasam (62,284), Kurnool. (61,144), Visakhapatnam (60,441), Kadapa (55,544), Krishna (49,345), Srikakulam (46,369) and Vizianagaram (41,218).