Active cases cross 39,000-mark in South Coastal Andhra
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At least 14 extra sufferers succumbed to the viral an infection in a span of 24 hours in South Coastal Andhra. However, there was some respite as recent cases got here right down to 2,036 in the area on Tuesday.
The toll rose to 1,443 in the area with 9 sufferers in Prakasam district and 5 in SPSR Nellore district dying as a consequence of COVID-19.
An individual with black fungus an infection from Prakasam district was amongst these deceased. He died whereas present process remedy in a non-public hospital close to Vijayawada.
The coronavirus case tally inched nearer to the 2 lakh-mark as 1,251 individuals in SPSR Nellore district and 785 in Prakasam examined optimistic for the illness, in keeping with a well being bulletin launched by the State authorities.
Over 1,600 sufferers, together with 1,145 in SPSR Nellore, posted restoration. Active cases continued to be excessive at 39,290 with SPSR Nellore district accounting for 18,745 cases and Prakasam district for 20,545.
Situation reviewed
In Nellore, Energy Minister Balineni Srinivasa Reddy, who can be in-charge of SPSR Nellore, reviewed the well being scenario together with Ministers M. Goutham Reddy and P. Anil Kumar Yadav.
Giving particulars concerning the measures taken to deal with the oxygen scarcity, Mr. Goutham Reddy stated 4 oxygen crops with 400 tonnes manufacturing capability would come into operation shortly.
YSR Congress MLAs K. Sanjeeviah, V. Varaprasad Rao and Ramireddy Pratap Kumar Reddy highlighted the sufferers’ struggling as a consequence of insufficient oxygen beds and absence of well being professionals in the general public well being centres in their constituencies.
“Patients in Sullurpeta are scrambling to find beds in Tirupati and Nellore and some of them die before they could get one,” lamented Mr. Sanjaiah, the ruling social gathering MLA from Sullurpeta.
The hospitals in Kavali lacked well being professionals to observe sufferers requiring oxygen remedy, complained the legislator, Mr. Pratap kumar Reddy. Two of the three city PHCs in his Gudur Assembly constituency had insufficient well being professionals, added the MLA from Gudur Varaprasada Rao.
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