Vijayawada: Sending shock waves across India and in south India especiallly, Andhra Pradesh reported over 10,000 new Covid-19 cases for the first time on Wednesday. To be precise, 10,093 new cases were reported.
The State also conducted a record 70,584 tests in the last 24 hours. Sixty-five people succumbed to Covid-19 taking the total toll to 1213 in the State, according to reports.
Deputy Chief Minister (Health) A K K Srinivas said the prime reason for the severe spurt in number of cases was the ‘extensive’ Covid-19 tests.
Andhra Pradesh, whose Covid-19 numbers have been travelling north in a quick pace for the past few days, registering not less than 7,000 infections, reported 10,093 cases as a result of a record sample size of 70,584.
The infection positivity rate in the state has now shot up to 6.61 per cent while the recovery rate was 46.02 per cent.
East Godavari district continued to show the most alarming trend as it added 1,676 new cases to its tally, besides 14 fatalities in the last 24 hours. The district now has 17,739 Covid-19 cases, with 11,896 of them being active.
Anantapuramu district reported 1,371, Guntur 1,124 and Kurnool 1,091 fresh cases followed by Visakhapatnam 841, Chittoor 819 and West Godavari 779. West Godavari became the fifth district in the state to have registered more than 10,000 cases.