Andhra Pradesh crosses one crore Covid tests

Amaravati, Nov 29 : Andhra Pradesh on Sunday reached a significant milestone as the number of Covid-19 tests crossed one crore.
The health officials said the state has so far tested 1,00,17,126 samples of which 8,67,683 tested positive and 91,49,443 negative.
The milestone was crossed with 54,710 new tests during the last 24 hours.
According to officials, 52,38,479 were RT-PCR tests, 7,41,711 truenat tests and 40,36,936 rapid tests.
Andhra Pradesh stands first among big states in India with 1,87,587 tests per million population. The national average is 98,004 per million The state’s positivity rate stands at 8.66 per cent and recovery rate at 98.23 per cent.