This story is from July 6, 2020

AP records highest one-day spike with 998 virus cases

AP records highest one-day spike with 998 virus cases
Locals reach fishing harbour in Visakhapatnam on Sunday, flouting social distancing norms, although Covid-19 cases continue to surge
Visakhapatnam: Andhra Pradesh reported the highest single-day surge of Covid-19 cases on Sunday with 998 people testing positive. As many as 14 deaths were also recorded in the state, taking the toll to 232. The cumulative caseload has risen to 18,697 in AP.
Among the 14 casualties on Sunday, five are from Kurnool, three from Anantapur, two each from Chittoor and Kadapa, and one each from Visakhapatnam and Krishna districts.

The number of active cases crossed the 10,000 mark to touch 10,043, with 8,422 cumulative recoveries and 232 deaths. Of all the active cases, 2,100 patients are being treated at the Covid-19 Care Centres.
The state clocked the one million testing milestone on Sunday with a total of 10.17 lakh tests. Andhra Pradesh collected its first sample on February 1. It took 100 days for the state to reach the first five lakh testing mark on June 11, while the latest five lakh tests were carried out in just 24 days. The state currently has a testing capacity of about 35,000 samples a day. At least one lakh tests have been conducted in both East Godavari and Krishna districts.
The one million tests translates to about 19,000 people being tested per every million population in the state, trailing just behind Delhi (31,814 tests per million) and Jammu and Kashmir (29,105). The mortality rate of the state is 1.24% with the 232 deaths, against the national average of 2.86%. Kurnool district alone recorded 81 Covid deaths.
Guntur contributed 157 new local Covid-19 cases to the table on Sunday, followed by East Godavari 118, Kurnool 97, Srikakulam 96, Visakhapatnam 88 and Anantapur 87. Even though Srikakulam recorded about 850 Covid-19 cases as of Saturday, there were only 93 local cases.
The remaining cases were detected among the people who came from outside the state. But the district saw 96 new local cases, more than the number of cases registered in the last 70 days, taking the cumulative local infections to 189.
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Umamaheswara Rao

J Umamaheswara Rao is a special correspondent, at the Times of India-Visakhapatnam. He covers developments related to the GVMC/VMRDA, education, health, science, IT, tech and startups, research studies, and data-related stories. He holds two postgraduate degrees, one in journalism and mass communication and another one in business administration, apart from completing several short-term courses and fellowships.

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