: Andhra Pradesh crossed another milestone, completing over two crore tests for coronavirus on Wednesday, which turned out an overall 8.5 per cent positives of the infection in the State so far.
The State completed one crore tests on November 29 last year, that showed 8,67,683 positives for the pandemic infection.
The second crore tests yielded 9,12,090 positives, taking the aggregate number of cases in the state to 17,79,773.
The tests covered about 3.75 lakh persons per million population, according to Health Department data.
Meanwhile, a health department bulletin said 8,766 fresh Covid-19 cases were reported in the state in 24 hours ending 9 am on Wednesday. It said 12,292 patients recovered and another 67 succumbed during this period.