State reports zero deaths for second time this month

For the second time this month, there have been no fatalities associated to COVID-19 within the State.

In the 24 hours ending Saturday morning, 114 new infections had been reported and no new deaths occurred within the State.

On January 1, no deaths had been reported, and, on a mean, two deaths per day had been being reported since then.

While the toll remained at 7,139, the variety of infections reported up to now elevated to eight,85,824 with a restoration fee of 98.97% with 326 extra sufferers recovering within the final sooner or later.

The variety of lively instances got here right down to 1,987. The variety of complete recoveries was put at 8,76,698. Also, solely 25,542 samples had been examined within the final sooner or later, the bottom prior to now six months, and their positivity fee was 0.45%. The positivity fee barely got here right down to 7.06%.

All the districts reported lower than 25 new instances.

The district-wise tally of recent infections is as follows: Chittoor (24), Visakhapatnam (22), East Godavari (13), Krishna (12), Nellore (10), Kurnool (8), Guntur (6), Srikakulam (6), West Godavari (4), Anantapur (3), Vizianagaram (3), Kadapa (2) and Prakasam (1).

More than 50% of the entire lively instances had been current in Krishna (292 instances), Guntur (285), Nellore (278) and East Godavari (202). The remaining 9 districts had no more than 200 instances every. Vizianagaram had 34 lively instances, the bottom.

The district-wise tallies are as follows: East Godavari (1,24,055), West Godavari (94,092), Chittoor (86,733), Guntur (75,263), Anantapur (67,553), Nellore (62,258), Prakasam (62,110), Kurnool (60,723), Visakhapatnam (59,519), Kadapa (55,158), Krishna (48,309), Srikakulam (46,053) and Vizianagaram (41,103).