The State's COVID tally crossed the seven-lakh mark as the number of cases went up to 7,00,235 with 6,751 new infections and 41 deaths being reported in last 24 hours ending Thursday morning.Andhra Pradesh became the second State in the country to record over seven lakh cases after Maharashtra where the cases were over 13.8 lakh. Andhra Pradesh was followed by neighbouring Karnataka and Tamil Nadu with 6.01 lakh and 5.97 lakh infections respectively, according to the data released by the State.

AP has the lowest death rate of 0.84% (5,869) and highest recovery rate of 90.90% among the top four States. Also, it is the only State with over one lakh tests per million ratio. Also, nearly 10 lakh samples were tested to detect the last one lakh cases and the positivity rate was lowest at 9.94%.

However, AP continues to have the highest number of cases per million at 13,113 as more than 1% population was infected so far. After continuously seeing an increase by a lakh in an interval of 10 to 11 days, the seventh lakh of cases were reported in 14 days.

The State's COVID tally crossed the seven-lakh mark as the number of cases went up to 7,00,235 with 6,751 new infections and 41 deaths being reported in last 24 hours ending Thursday morning.Andhra Pradesh became the second State in the country to record over seven lakh cases after Maharashtra where the cases were over 13.8 lakh. Andhra Pradesh was followed by neighbouring Karnataka and Tamil Nadu with 6.01 lakh and 5.97 lakh infections respectively, according to the data released by the State.

AP has the lowest death rate of 0.84% (5,869) and highest recovery rate of 90.90% among the top four States. Also, it is the only State with over one lakh tests per million ratio. Also, nearly 10 lakh samples were tested to detect the last one lakh cases and the positivity rate was lowest at 9.94%.

However, AP continues to have the highest number of cases per million at 13,113 as more than 1% population was infected so far. After continuously seeing an increase by a lakh in an interval of 10 to 11 days, the seventh lakh of cases were reported in 14 days.