Amaravati: Coronavirus cases scaled new peaks in the month of May in Andhra Pradesh, setting new records on the way, but the slide started in the last week.
It took close to six months, during the first Covid-19 wave between March and September 2020, for AP to cross the five lakh-mark but a staggering 5.71 lakh positives were registered during May 2021 in the ongoing second wave.
May 2021 began with a caseload of 11.21 lakh infections and ended with a sum of 16,93,085 adding a lakh every five days till May 25, when again the decline started.
The state also saw a new high of 5.46 lakh recoveries and 2,877 deaths in the month, the health department data showed.
Between August 1 and 31 last year, during the first wave a total of 2.84 lakh coronavirus cases, 2.53 lakh recoveries and 2,562 fatalities were reported in the state.
The peak positivity rate then was 16.89 per cent but this May it climbed up to 25.56 per cent (on the 16th). A record number of 1.16 lakh samples…