Kurnool district has 2,354 cumulative positive cases of district origin and another 350 with other State/country origin. While Anantapur district has 951 active cases being treated in four hospitals and five COVID Care Centres, Kurnool has 1,131 active cases being treated in four hospitals and about nine COVID Care centres as on Saturday. District Collector Gandham Chandrudu on Saturday inspected the newly constructed godowns, which could be converted into at least 1,000-bed Covid Care Centre initially, where asymptomatic or patients with mild symptoms could be treated. The COVID Care Centres have 2,000 bed capacity. The district administration had set up a Triage Centre on SK University campus and three teams of doctors scan a suspect/confirmed patient and conduct Triage to determine if a patient needs to be taken to a hospital, COVID Care Centre or allowed to be home isolated during treatment.

Source: The Hindu July 04, 2020 18:00 UTC