Guwahati: Assam reported 222 new COVID-19 positive cases raising the tally to 2,12,998 on Tuesday, health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said.
No deaths were registered for the second consecutive day and the fatality figure remained unchanged at 981, he said.
Altogether 135 patients recovered from the infection, pushing the number of cured people to 2,08,528. The recovery rate in the state currently is 97.90 per cent.
Assam now has 3,486 active cases, the minister said adding that three had migrated out of the state.
The 222 fresh positive cases included 85 from Kamrup Metropolitan district.
The new cases were detected out of 20,852 tests conducted during the day at a positivity rate of 0.74 per cent.
The total number of tests done in the state so far is 53,35,041 which includes both Rapid Antigen and RT-PCR tests.
