COVID positivity rate reaches highest peak since March 2020
- COVID-19
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Satyapriya Buddhavarapu
- January 22nd 2022
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Andhra Pradesh reported a new daily high in COVID-19 cases as the state accumulated 13,212 infections on Friday, taking the cumulative caseload to 21,53,268.
Visakhapatnam (2,244 new cases) reported over 2,000 daily cases for the second consecutive day on Friday.
This is the highest one-day case total in about seven months. The daily positivity rate further increased to 29.7% as the new cases were detected in tests conducted on 44,516 people.
This is the highest ever daily positivity rate since the pandemic started in the state in March, 2020. Many of the urban and rural areas are recording 50% positivity rate since the past few days.
