Amaravati: Coronavirus cases went past the 8,000-mark in Andhra Pradesh on Saturday as 491 were added anew, taking the total to 8,452, even as the death toll rose to 101 with five fresh casualties.
The latest COVID-19 bulletin said 4,111 patients were discharged in the state so far, leaving 4,240 active cases.
In the last 24 hours, 390 AP locals tested positive in the 22,371 tests conducted in the state, the bulletin said.
Another 83 people who came from other states and 18 from abroad also tested positive.
Kurnool and Krishna, the two prime hotbeds of COVID-19 in AP, reported two fresh deaths each in the last 24 hours, while Guntur had one.
The Covid-19 toll thus touched 101, with Kurnool and Krishna accounting for 33 each, the worst in the state, followed by Guntur with 11.
A senior bureaucrat, when asked about the quantum jump in coronavirus cases in the state in the last few days, said it was basically due to change in confirmation guidelines.
"Previously the presumptive cases in TruNat machine tests were retested with RT-PCR. But now all such cases are directly treated as positive," he pointed out.
