In Rural Andhra Pradesh, COVID-19 Has Had a Devastating Impact
The timing of the second wave has coincided with the lean agricultural period. Those who have the economic means can avoid going out, but for agricultural labourers the curtailment of mobility has hit migration to the cities for work.
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As in the rest of India, the impact of the second wave of COVID-19 in Andhra Pradesh has been devastating.
A feature of the state post bifurcation in 2014 is that geographically it has three distinct regions (Rayalaseema, South Coastal Andhra and North Coastal Andhra) each with one large urban agglomeration (Tirupati, Vijayawada-Guntur and Visakhapatnam respectively). COVID-19 has overwhelmed all three regions with the government now forced to declare the whole city of Tirupati as a containment zone.