VIJAYAWADA: Health authorities of Srikakulam district have announced that 12 girl trainees living in hostels of IIIT, Etcherla, have actually checked positive on Monday.

All of them have actually been shifted to the Covid Care Centre on outskirts of the town.All hostels of the IIT, which had actually been resumed in February, have actually been disinfected.

Cases in Srikakulam district have been increasing.

On Monday, 893 individuals tested positive from out of 2,435 samples gathered.

In all, 4,831 favorable cases have signed up from April 6 to April 18.

District collector has actually bought shifting of vegetable and grocery vendors from Potti Sriramulu Market to the 80 feet roadway, so that social distance could be kept and Coronavirus avoided.