East godavari lockdown news today Andhra Pradesh corona

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 East Godavari in Andhra Pradesh have become the worst Covid-19 affected districts even as Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy called for focussed testing and hastened vaccination. 

East godavari lockdown news 

 The CM called on health workers, district collectors, police and village and ward secretariat staff to work with the same spirit as last year as Covid-19 cases have started rising again. Chittoor with 1,00,254 cases and 918 deaths and East Godavari with 1,29,312 cases and 638 deaths are the worst affected, according to officials.

 Deputy Chief Minister Alla Krishna Srinivas (Health) said Andhra Pradesh has conducted 1.55 crore tests since last year and 9.37 lakh samples have been tested positive. 

The positivity rate in the state is 6.03 per cent while the recovery rate is 96.19 per cent. The national average recovery rate is 88.9 per cent. While the death rate in the state is 0.78 per cent, it is 1.24 per cent at the national level. The second wave has seen the number of cases rise very quickly and from December to April, the positivity rate was 7.77 per cent.

 While the rate of infection and positivity is higher in Chittoor followed by Srikakulam, Visakhapatnam, Krishna, Guntur and Nellore districts.

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