Hyderabad: Coronavirus or covid-19 cases continued to soar in Andhra Pradesh as 67 more people tested positive on Monday. With this, the total number of cases in the state is now 1,660.
Of the latest cases, 44 were from Kurnool and Guntur districts, which together account for about 50% of the total cases in the state that has been reporting about 60 to 80 cases daily over the last week.
Monday's cases were detected from the districts of Chittoor (1), Guntur (19), Kadapa (4), Krishna (12) and Kurnool (25). Of the total 1,660 cases in AP, 1,093 are currently active and 524 people have recovered.
On Monday, 36 patients were discharged from hospitals and 33 patients succumbed to covid-19. The latest cases emerged from a pool of 10,292 samples