No New COVID-19 Cases in AP Till Morning: Health Dept

AMARAVATI: The efforts of Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy-led Andhra Pradesh government to contain the spread of COVID-19 virus in the state is yielding positive results as a gradual decrease is being witnessed in the number of Coronavirus positive cases in the last few days.

In what could of a great source of hope and confidence, Andhra Pradesh has not reported a single coronavirus case over the past 12 hours, i.e., from Wednesday night to Thursday morning, according to a media bulletin released by the AP health department. The total number of cases in the state remains at 348 even as nine persons recovered from COVID-19 and were discharged from hospitals in the state so far.

Close to 90 per cent of these 348 cases have links with the returnees from the Delhi Nizamuddin Markaz religious meeting organised by Tablighi Jamaat. The government officials said that COVID-19 tests were conducted on 1,000 persons who traveled to Delhi and another 2,500 who came in contact with them. In all, 7,155 people were subjected to medical examination and of them, 348 tested positive for coronavirus, said the health department press release. A survey has also been conducted on 1,42,00,000 families in the state, in which 6,289 persons were diagnosed with illnesses. So the government has kept 1,750 of them in home isolation.

The state government is testing at least 1,000 people with suspected symptoms of COVID-19 per day. Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy has launched new COVID-19 rapid testing kits which are being manufactured in the State, These kits will generate the test report within 50 minutes and each kit can be used to perform 20 tests in a day.

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