10 deaths and 1,221 new COVID-19 cases in A.P.

The State has reported 1,221 new COVID-19 infections and 10 new deaths in the 24 hours ending Friday morning.

The tally elevated to eight,59,932 and the demise toll reached 6,920. The mortality fee continued to be at 0.80%. The restoration fee elevated to 97.41% with 1,829 extra sufferers recovering through the interval, taking the variety of recoveries up to now to eight,37,630. With this, solely 15,382 sufferers had been present process remedy as on date.

The general positivity fee of the 94.74 lakh samples examined up to now was at 9.08%. In the final 24 hours, 66,002 samples had been examined with a positivity fee of 1.85%.

With two new deaths every, Chittoor and Krishna proceed to have highest demise fee among the many districts.

East Godavari, Guntur, Kurnool, Nellore, (*10*) and Visakhapatam reported one new demise every. There had been no fatalities in the remaining districts.

More than 70% of the new cases got here from 5 districts – East Godavari (202), Krishna (198), Chittoor (175), West Godavari (145) and Guntur (144).

The remaining eight districts collectively reported solely 357 new cases – Visakhapatnam (69), Kadapa (65), (*10*) (50), Nellore (47), Anantapur (41), Srikakulam (34), Vizianagaram (32) and Kurnool (19).

Overall tally

The general tallies are as follows: East Godavari (1,21,325), West Godavari (91,313), Chittoor (82,816), Guntur (71,776), Anantapur (66,385), (*10*) (61,135), Nellore (61,055), Kurnool (60,031), Visakhapatnam (57,562), Kadapa (53,916), Srikakulam (45,194), Krishna (44,121) and Vizianagaram (40,408).

The restoration fee in three districts – Kurnool, Vizianagaram, and Kadapa – was near 99% as they’d fewer deaths and fewer lively cases. Similarly, the restoration fee in Srikakulam, Anantapur, (*10*) and Chittoor was greater than 98%.

While all of the districts have greater than 95% restoration fee, Krishna lags behind with 93.8% recoveries and 1.40% deaths.