{"id":173899,"date":"2021-10-11T00:06:21","date_gmt":"2021-10-10T18:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=173899"},"modified":"2021-10-11T00:06:21","modified_gmt":"2021-10-10T18:36:21","slug":"assam-logs-160-new-covid-19-cases-5-fresh-fatalities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/10\/11\/assam-logs-160-new-covid-19-cases-5-fresh-fatalities\/","title":{"rendered":"Assam logs 160 new COVID-19 cases, 5 fresh fatalities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Guwahati, Oct 10 (PTI) Assam&#8217;s COVID-19 tally rose to 6,04,969 on Sunday as 160 more people tested positive for the infection, while five fresh fatalities pushed the state&#8217;s coronavirus death toll to 5,926, a health bulletin said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kamrup Metropolitan district registered the highest number of new cases at 60, followed by Jorhat (21), Lakhimpur (12), and Nagaon (10).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Two persons died of the infection in Sonitpur and one fresh fatality each was recorded in Barpeta, Jorhat, and Lakhimpur districts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The state now has 2,605 active cases, while 5,95,091 people have recovered from the disease so far, including 240 in the last 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The recovery rate stood at 98.37 per cent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The current death rate is 0.98 per cent and 1,347 COVID-19 patients have died due to comorbidities to date.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Assam has tested over 2.39 crore samples for COVID-19 thus far, including 24,900 in the last 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Over 1.95 crore people have received the first dose, and 64.03 lakh have been fully vaccinated. PTI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guwahati, Oct 10 (PTI) Assam&#8217;s COVID-19 tally rose to 6,04,969 on Sunday as 160 more people tested positive for the infection, while five fresh fatalities pushed the state&#8217;s coronavirus death toll to 5,926, a health bulletin said. Kamrup Metropolitan district registered the highest number of new cases at 60, followed by Jorhat (21), Lakhimpur (12), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-173899","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-north-east"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}