New Delhi: For third day in a row, Andhra Pradesh on Saturday witnessed a fresh single-day spike in new Covid-19 cases.
Record 1,813 new cases in the last 24 hours took the state's overall coronavirus tally to 27,235.The southern state's previous high in number of new cases in 24 hours was on 10 July when it clocked 1,608 new cases.
On 9 July the state had reported 1,555 new cases.Out of the total number of cases, 12,533 cases are active. As many as 1,168 persons were discharged today, taking the tally of discharged people to 14,393.The state also witnessed a new single-day high in deaths with 17 more fatalities taking the state's death toll to 309.Among the 17 patients who succumbed to the infection, four were from Kurnool, three each from.