India has not been faring well in the Covid 19 situation. Andhra Pradesh which is a part of this large country has found and recorded more that 1000 new infections over the weekend. These are terrible numbers to have, considering the fact that India has also now developed a new variant of the virus. The new found figures push the number of Covid patients to a whopping total of 8.89 lakhs. The daily count has not been this high or crossed the 1000 mark since the 26th of November 2020.
There was a media bulleting that was released by the state command control room. According to this there were 1005 new infections that were caught from the 31,142 samples that were tested in the last 24 hours. The areas that accounted for more than 700 new cases were Guntur, Chittoor, Visakhapatnam and Krishna. Earlier in the week there were 42,696 sample testing that was done and from this there was another 947 new positive cases that were found. This sudden surge in Covid positive cases can be clearly seen with more than 1,000 new cases reported from just the 31,000 samples that were done. The total number of samples taken and tested in India is close to 11 Million so far.
Guntur recorded the highest number of 225 new cases, taking its total to cross 77,000-mark. On the other hand, the new recoveries stood at 324, pushing the active caseload to 5,394, which is the highest since December 9, 2020.
The caseload in Chittoor is more than 1,000. Vizianagaram is the only district in the State with a caseload of less than 100. Two fatalities, one each from Chittoor and Krishna, were reported taking the Covid toll to 7,205.
