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Guwahati, Jan 4 (PTI) The number of fresh COVID-19 infections in Assam on Tuesday increased to 475, registering an increase of over 35 per cent in a single day, the National Health Mission (NHM) bulletin said.<\/p>\n
The new cases, 124 more than the figures reported on Monday, registered a positivity rate of 1.29 per cent against the testing of 36,781 samples.<\/p>\n
The virus tally has now increased to 6,21,987, the bulletin said.<\/p>\n
Besides, three persons lost their lives to the disease during the day, taking the total number of deaths to 6,170. The virus had claimed two lives on Monday.<\/p>\n
NHM said 1,347 more COVID-19 patients have died till now, but the government’s Death Audit Board has not included them in the tally of deaths caused by the COVID-19 virus as they had other ailments too.<\/p>\n
The number of patients who recovered from the infection rose nearly three-fold to 154 persons on Tuesday from 53 on Monday, the bulletin said.<\/p>\n
As many as 6,12,792 people in the northeastern state have recovered from COVID-19 thus far.<\/p>\n
Currently, the state has a total of 1,588 active coronavirus cases.<\/p>\n
The overall positivity rate stands at 2.33 per cent against the total testing of 2,67,40,616 samples so far.<\/p>\n
The NHM further said a total of 3,80,93,833 doses of vaccines have been administered. This includes 2,20,08,048 first doses and 1,60,85,785 second doses.<\/p>\n
It said as many as 2,32,992 persons were vaccinated on Tuesday, up from 1,81,501 shots on Monday.<\/p>\n
The state government on Monday launched the COVID-19 vaccination drive for teenagers in the age group of 15-18 years.<\/p>\n
A total of 1,13,164 beneficiaries in that age group have received the first jab of Covaxin across the state on the second day of the drive, the NHM said.<\/p>\n
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