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Over 81% of the infections recorded from five districts
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People wait in a queue for registering for the COVID-19 free vaccination at a medical centre at Gunadala in Vijayawada on Monday.
Over 81% of the infections recorded from five districts
The State reported five more coronavirus deaths and 1,326 new infections in the 24 hours ending on Monday morning. The tally increased to 9,09,002 and the toll reached 7,244, with a recovery rate of 98.02% and death rate of 0.80% respectively.
With 911 patients recovering in the said period, the number of active cases stood at 10,710. The total number of recoveries stood at 8,91,048.
Only, 30, 678 samples were tested in the past day with a positivity rate of 4.32%. So far, 1.523 crore samples have been tested, with a positivity rate of 5.96%.
All districts report 10 or fewer infections in 24 hours
The number of active coronavirus cases in the State came down below 1,000 as of Monday morning as 62 new infections and one death were reported in the past 24 hours.
For the first time in eight and a half months, the number of active cases was put at 962. The State saw the highest active case of 1.03 lakh on September 2 and since then, the count has been on the decline.
The number of tests per million population has also reached 2,50,328. The total number of tests conducted so far is equivalent to 25% of the State’s population (5.34 crore). In other words, so far about 25 in every 100 persons were tested.