: The oldest person to test positive for coronavirus in Andhra Pradesh was an 80-year old woman from Guntur while the youngest were two three-year old girls, one from Kurnool and another from East Godavari district.
Of the total 483 COVID-19 cases registered in the state from March 12 to April 14, 125 were female and the rest male.
And, 31 of those afflicted were under the age of 15 years, data released by the AP government here on Tuesday revealed.
Among the children, there were two each of three, five and seven years, three each of eight and six years, a nine- year old and six were 10-year old.
Of the 31 children under the age of 15, the number of girls were 19.
The Government of India authorities insisted that AP too release the COVID-19 details like other states in a transparent manner and, accordingly, the state government finally released some data on the pandemic thus far, official sources said.
The government data revealed that, among the 483 cases, 13 foreign returnees contracted coronavirus and 12 of their contacts got afflicted through human-to-human transmission.
Another 33 cases were due to "other reasons."
The remaining cases were either Tablighi Jamaat congregation attendees or their contacts.
According to the state government numbers, in all 10,505 blood samples were tested till date and 10,022 of them turned negative.
On Monday, the seven Viral Research and Diagnostic Laboratories (VRDL) opened by the state, set a record by conducting 2,010 blood tests in 24 hours.
The seven labs have a total capacity to test 990 samples per day.
The government volunteers and health workers completed two rounds of house-to-house survey, covering 1.31 crore of the total 1.46 crore households to identify prospective COVID-19 patients.
In the third round of survey, 1.45 crore houses were covered and 22,272 symptomatic cases were identified.
Of these, 6,509 persons were kept in home quarantine and another eight in institutional quarantine, the government data said.
Another 243 samples were sent for further testing.
While the government opened 338 quarantine centres across the state, 5,864 persons were accommodated in them.
The government also opened one state-level Covid-19 hospital each in Chittoor, Krishna, Nellore and Visakhapatnam but they have not yet been readied to their full capacity.
While the government provisioned for 444 ventilators in these four hospitals, only 335 are available now, with 332 (out of 444) ICU beds.
Another 310 beds are to be added to the planned 1680 in non-ICU rooms in these hospitals.
In the 13 district-level COVID-19 hospitals, only half of the 445 provisioned ventilators could be put in place while 2,292 more beds need to be added in the non-ICU rooms, the government data said.
The data also said 4,799 doctors and 16,481 paramedical and nursing staff were rendering COVID-related services in government hospitals in the 13 districts, with the highest 2,771 doctors and 9,624 paramedical and nursing staff in Visakhapatnam district alone.
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