Recovery rate improves to 94.42%The State has once again reported fewer than four thousand new infections with the lowest single-day positivity rate in months. The number of active cases came down to 37,102 as 5,529 patients recovered in the past day. At 5.19%, the positivity rate of the 70,881 samples tested in the past day was lowest in over three months. The overall positivity rate also slightly came down to 11.14% as 69.91 lakh samples were tested so far. East Godavari’s daily new cases came down compared to previous weeks, but still continues to report the highest tallies.

Source: The Hindu October 17, 2020 18:45 UTC