Andhra Pradesh logs 1,728 new COVID-19 cases

Over 77,000 sample tests in 24 hours ending 9 am on Thursday turned out 1,728 fresh cases of COVID-19 in Andhra Pradesh, taking the infection count to 8,49,705.

Also, 1,777 patients got cured while nine more succumbed during the period, the latest bulletin



said.

After 8,22,011 recoveries and 6,837 deaths, the number of active coronavirus cases stood at 20,857, it said.

So far, 89,40,488 samples were tested for Covid-19 in AP at the rate of 1,67,425 per million population, turning out an overall positivity rate of 9.50 per cent.