As per report the andhra pradesh secretariat in amaravati is turning out to be a new hotspot for coronavirus with one more employee testing positive on thursday as 141 new cases were reported in the last 24 hours, taking the state aggregate to 4,112. The toll too increased by three to 71, with guntur, krishna and kurnool reporting one death each in the last 24 hours, a bulletin said. The rise in the case were due to suspected super- spreaders in east godavari and guntur districts along with those coming to the state from other parts of the country.
After one staffer each of the General Administration Department and Agriculture Department tested positive for coronavirus in the secretariat, another employee attached to the Revenue Principal Secretary was found infected on Thursday. A Special Protection Force constable on duty at the Legislature building, situated on the same campus, also tested positive for COVID-19, following which the Legislature authorities have asked the staff to work from home. As per the government bulletin, a total of 141 new cases of COVID-19 were added in the state in the last 24 hours, taking the aggregate to 4,112. As many as 43 of the new cases were those who came to the state from different parts of the country.
It is suspected that a 53 year-old person, who recently died of the virus at Gollala Mamidada village near kakinada, might have spread the virus to several persons. "It was the only case of COVID-19 death in our district and, yes, some 100 people might have been infected through him. We have conducted over 7,000 tests in the village so far but the disease has been contained," east godavari collector D muralidhar reddy told PTI over phone. The primary and secondary contacts of the deceased person were screened and so far only about 100 cases were confirmed.
