Andhra Pradesh claims it leads in COVID-19 tests in country

With an average of 1504 COVID-19 tests per one million population, officials in Andhra Pradesh said the state tops in the country on that count and added the state government is gearing up to set up Virology labs in all the districts.

This was revealed during a review meeting held here on Tuesday chaired by Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy.

Briefing the COVID-19 situation in the state, the officials told Chief Minister that 82 positive cases have been recorded in the past 24 hours and a total of 80,334 tests have been conducted so far.

While the national average in terms of positives cases recorded is 4.13 per cent and the Andhra Pradesh average is 1.57 per cent.

The average death rate of the country is 3.19 per cent and the state average is 2.46 per cent.

All these cases are from containment zones, officials said and informed that they are gearing up to set up labs in Srikakulam, Prakasam, and Nellore along with Vizianagaram and West Godavari districts.