HYDERABAD: The single largest number of new cases in a day was reported from Andhra Pradesh on Wednesday with the medical bulletin reporting 43 fresh positive cases in a single day between 9 pm on Tuesday to 9 am on Wednesday morning.
The total number of cases since last evening now stands at 87. Most of these cases are people who returned from Nizamuddin Markaz.
The sudden spurt has caused a panic and sent the people and the state government in a tizzy. Police have started inspection of Masjids from
where many people are being pulled out for violations of orders to close the masjids.
Reportedly, many people testing are those who have returned from Tablighi Jamaat congregation in Nizamuddin in Delhi back to AP. More than 700 people from the state had been identified as having attended the Jamaat conference.
This is apart from two persons – one in Nellore and another in Visakhapatnam, who had already recovered from the disease and were discharged from the hospitals last week.
According to Andhra Pradesh health bulletin 373 samples were tested in the last 12 hours, of which 330 samples tested negative and the remaining 43 tested positive.
Most of the positive cases were 15 from Kadapa, followed by 13 in West Godavari, five in Chittoor, four in Prakasam, two each in East Godavari and Nellore and one each in Krishna and Visakhapatnam.
In neighboring Telangana, according to Telangana Health Minister E Rajender over a 1,000 people from Telangana attended Tablighi Jamaat meeting in Delhi. An extensive search operation has been launched and barring 160 all of them have been traced, the minister said.
The minister said around 750 participants in the meeting were traced and sent for screening at the Gandhi Hospital in Hyderabad. The death toll in Telangana has remained at six. All the deceased had attended the meeting held at the Tablighi headquarters in Delhi’s Nizamuddin.