Andhra Pradesh added 6,780 fresh COVID-19 cases takes tally to 2.96 lakh

Andhra Pradesh added 6,780 fresh coronavirus cases, taking its overall tally to 2.96 lakh on Monday while 82 more deaths pushed the toll to 2,732. The latest bulletin said 7,866 patients were discharged from hospitals upon recovery. 

The state COVID-19 table showed a total of 2,96,609 positive cases, 2,09,100 recoveries and 2,732 deaths,



leaving 84,777 cases active. Over the past few days, the number of coronavirus tests reduced significantly from a high of over 60,000 which saw the cases peak to over 10,000 a day to just about 44,000 on Monday. 

The overall infection positivity rate, however, continued its upward trend and reached 10.21 per cent after a sum of 29,05,521 samples were tested so far.