At least one person has died and 227 have been hospitalised by an unidentified illness in India's southern state of Andhra Pradesh.

The patients had a wide range of symptoms from nausea to fits and falling unconscious, doctors said.

Officials are still investigating the cause of the illness, which swept the town of Eluru over the weekend.

It comes as India continues to battle a pandemic, with the world's second-highest coronavirus caseload.

Andhra Pradesh has been one of the worst-affected states - at more than 800,000, it has the country's third-highest case count.

But Covid-19 doesn't appear to be the cause of the hospitalisations over the weekend. The state's health minister, Alla Kali Krishna Srinivas, said that all the patients had tested negative for coronavirus.

"The people who fell sick, especially the children, suddenly started vomiting after complaining of burning eyes. Some of them fainted or suffered bouts of seizures," a medical officer at Eluru Government Hospital told The Indian Express newspaper.

Seventy people have been discharged, while another 157 are still being treated, officials said.

The state's chief minister, Jaganmohan Reddy, said that special medical teams are being sent to Eluru to investigate the cause of the illness. Mr Reddy is also expected to visit the town to meet the patients and their families.

Mr Srinivas said that the patients' blood samples did not reveal any evidence of a viral infection.

"We ruled out water contamination or air pollution as the cause after officials visited the areas where people fell sick," he said. "It is some mystery illness and only lab analysis will reveal what it is."

However the opposition Telugu Desam Party has called for an enquiry into the incident, insisting that contamination was the cause of the mystery illness.

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Righteousness89:
The Inhabitants of the Earth have Defiled the Earth, broken God's Commandments and Changed GOD'S Ordinances..

There are Confusion, tears and Pains all over the Nations.
Cities are broken down, Pestilences, Desolations and Destructions! All because Humans Have Seared their hearts to Rebel against GOD and His Word!

I say this again! The World has seen nothing yet!
I see Nations, Copirations are Inhabitants are bent on Going against GOD Almighty!

What is Coming will cause people to run to Mountains and say Fall on us!
Those that Flee from Noise of Fear will Fall into the Pit!
Those that come out From the Pit will be taken in the Snares!
The Foundation of this Earth will be Shaken!

The Good News is that The LORD JESUS will snatch away all who Believe and Accept Him..
The Only means to be Saved is to Surrender to JESUS CHRIST..

They that Have Ears to Hear! Let them Hear