COVID-19: Fresh cases fall below 50 in Puducherry

Puducherry, August 16 dmanewsdesk: The union territory of Puducherry reported less than 50 fresh coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours as the overall tally went up to 1,22,331, a senior official of the Health Department said on Monday.

Puducherry and its outlying regions reported 49 new cases in the last 24 hours ending 10 AM on Monday at the end of the examination of 3,142 samples, Director of Health G Sriramulu said.

The union territory had logged 79 new cases on Sunday.

While Puducherry accounted for 31 of the 49 fresh infections, Karaikal registered 13 and Mahe 5. Yanam did not report any new cases, the Director said.

No fresh fatality was reported from any of the four regions and the death toll remained at 1,805.

The Health department Director said the number of active cases stood at 892 – with 192 in hospitals and the remaining 700 in home isolation.

While 86 patients recovered and were discharged during the last twenty- four hours the overall recoveries were 1,19,634.

The Director said that the Department of Health had tested so far 15.84 lakh samples and found 13.44 lakh samples out of them to be negative.

The test positivity rate was 1.56 percent today while fatality and recovery rates were 1.48 percent and 97.80 percent respectively, the Director said.

He said that 38,045 health care workers and 22,994 front line workers have been vaccinated against the pandemic so far. He said that 5.46 lakh people coming under the category of either senior citizens or those above 45 years with co morbidities have been inoculated so far.

In all the department has vaccinated 7.64 lakh people including those who received the second jab so far, he said.

Source; PTI