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Assam’s COVID-19 tally crosses 1.50 lakh-mark

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Guwahati: Assam has reported 17 more deaths due to coronavirus and 1,380 fresh cases in past 24 hours. With this, Assam now has over 1.5 lakh coronavirus cases in total.

Assam Health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that 17 more Covid-19 patients aged between 37 years and 80 years succumbed to the deadly virus at different hospitals in the state in the past 24 hours.

With the 17 deaths, Assam’s toll has to 528. On the other hand, the state has also registered 1,380 new coronavirus positive cases in the past 24 hours.

With the new coronavirus cases, Assam’s tally has now reached 1,50,349.

The state health minister also said that Assam tested 20,557 samples on Thursday and out of these 1,380 samples tested positive with a positivity rate of 6.71 percent.

In a tweet, Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Friday, “1380 COVID cases detected today out of 20557 tests. Due to VishwakarmaPuja today, less number of tests were conducted. Positivity Rate- 6.71%. Kamrup M- 376; Jorhat- 123.”

On the other hand, 2246 Covid-19 patients were discharged from different hospitals in Assam in the past 24 hours. 1,21,610 patients have been discharged from hospitals so far and the state now has 28,208 active positive cases for the novel coronavirus.

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