Instead mid-day meals allowance will be given to the students. “The draft guidelines include allowing only two students on a bench and scrapping of mid-day meals. General Education Minister V Sivankutty said the draft guidelines will be finalised within five days after holding discussions with health and other concerned departments. The Kerala government on Friday issued draft guidelines for the reopening of schools in the state which includes allowing only two students to sit in a bench and scrapping of mid-day meals for children. The weekly average number of cases in the state dropped marginally from 1,255 to 1,208. Kurnool district’s Covid-19 positivity rate almost fell to nil at 0.09 per cent, the data showed. While Guntur’s graph remained stable at 2.5 per cent, Visakhapatnam saw a dip from 2.25 to 1.61 and Kadapa from 2.05 to 1.84 per cent. Other hotspot districts like Chittoor and West Godavari too witnessed a slide from 3.07 to 2.48 and 2.58 per cent respectively. SPS Nellore, which saw a spurt in Covid-19 cases in the previous two weeks, seemed to have slowed down as the positivity rate fell from 4.88 to 3.80 per cent. Prakasam’s positivity rate climbed up from 2.36 to 3.69 per cent and Krishna’s from 2.14 to 2.30 per cent, according to the Medical and Health Department data. Only three districts showed a considerable increase in Covid-19 positivity rate while the remaining 10 had seen a slide in Andhra Pradesh week-on-week.Įast Godavari topped the list with increase in positivity rate from 4.12 to 5.20 per cent, the only district in the state above the five per cent mark. The state is now ranked fourth in the country with 13,535 active cases. The overall mortality rate, after a total of 14,118 deaths, including 10 in a day, remained stable at 0.69 per cent. The total recoveries increased to 20,16,837 at the rate of 98.64 per cent (up from 98.59 per cent).ĭuring the period, 1,450 infected persons got cured of coronavirus. Andhra Pradesh recorded 1,246 fresh COVID-19 cases in the 24 hours ending 9 am on Friday, taking the caseload to 20,44,490.Ī total of 2.79 crore samples have been tested till date and the overall infection positivity rate is 7.32 per cent, down from 7.42 per cent the previous week