COVID cases on rise in Vijayawada
The Hindu
Collector asks people to get vaccinated, follow COVID appropriate behaviour
Vijayawada has been witnessing a rapid rise in the incidence of COVID-19 infections of late, and a majority of the Krishna district’s 46 containment zones and 604 active cases were in the city. District Collector A.Md. Imtiaz said that the positivity rate of the samples tested every month in the district came down from 7.7% in October to 0.4% in February but in the current month so far it was 1.1%.More Related News
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