Arunachal Pradesh logs two fresh COVID-19 cases

Itanagar, November 6 dmanewsdesk:  Arunachal Pradesh’s COVID-19 tally rose to 55,176 as two more persons tested positive for the infection, a senior health department official said here on Saturday.

The frontier state had reported zero COVID-19 cases on Thursday, seven cases on Wednesday and six on Tuesday.

Arunachal Pradesh now has 61 active COVID-19 cases of which 11 are in Tawang district and 10 each in Lohit and East Siang district.

Nine more patients recuperated from COVID-19 on Friday, taking the total number of recoveries to 54,835, State Surveillance Officer (SSO) Dr Lobsang Jampa said.

The COVID-19 recovery rate now is 99.38 per cent, Dr Jampa said.

The COVID-19 death toll in the state remained at 280 as no new fatality was reported in the last 24 hours, the SSO said.

As many as 11,87,903 samples have been tested for COVID-19 thus far in the state, including 440 on Friday, Jampa said, adding that the positivity rate stood at 0.45 per cent.

State Immunisation Officer Dr Dimong Padung said that a total of 13,31,896 people have been inoculated so far in the state.

Source: PTI