A.P. logs four COVID-19 deaths in 24 hours
The Hindu
Daily test positivity rate stays below 2% for eighth consecutive day
The State reported four more deaths due to coronavirus and 429 infections in 24 hours, ending Monday morning.
Only 30,515 tests were conducted in the past day, the lowest number of tests conducted per day in the past 202 days, and their positivity rate was put at 1.41%. The daily test positivity rate continued to stay below 2% for the eighth consecutive day. The single-day infection tally was the lowest in the past 196 days. The daily toll was also the lowest in the past 118 days.
Around 440 MBBS graduates of 2021 are not required to undergo one year of compulsory rural service as per the bond signed by them while joining the medical course through government-quota seats in 2015 as the High Court of Karnataka has said the law, enacted in 2012 for mandatory rural service, remained unenforced for 10 years as it was published in the official gazette only in July 2022.