As the COVID-19 is full on rise in the district, the health care officials are taking necessary steps to tackle the third wave. The district administration has set up 13 COVID-19 care centres with a capacity of 2,560 beds for COVID patients.

The district medical and health officer released the list of health care centres on Thursday. 
Two centres out of the 13 centres have been set up for East, West, North, South Constituencies with a 1,700 bed capacity in Hudhud Colonies at Bakannapalem and Mudasarlova.

Pendurthi, Bheemili and Gajuwaka have got three CCCs that were set up at with a combined bed capacity of 200.

A 200-bed CCC was set up at Youth Training Centre (YTC) Paderu and a 100-bed CCC was set up at Area Hospital, Araku.

Narsipatnam and Payakaraopeta  got 1 CCC each with a capacity of 50 beds each.  Anakapalle, Chodavaram, Yelamanchali and V. Madugula constituencies got 4 CCCswith a combined bed capacity of 260.