The COVID-19 cases went past the 400 mark to 405 in Andhra Pradesh with 24 new cases of the virus reported from 9 pm on Friday to 5 pm on Saturday. In Guntur district alone 17 new cases were recorded, all related to the Tablighi Jamaat attendees contacts, while Kurnool too had five more.
Kadapa and
Prakasam districts reported one new case each, a bulletin from the State Command Control Centre said. With this, the total cases in Kurnool district shot up to 82 and in Guntur to 75.
In all, 11 patients have recovered from the disease and been discharged from hospitals in different districts of the state.