4 security personnel among 24 new COVID-19 patients in Arunachal

4 security personnel among 24 new COVID-19 patients in Arunachal

Itanagar, Dec 3: Arunachal Pradesh’s COVID-19 tally rose to 16,320 on Thursday as 24 more people, including four security personnel, tested positive for the infection, a senior health official said. Single-day recoveries continued to outnumber fresh cases as 32 more people were cured of the disease, the State Surveillance Officer said. Twenty-two infections were detected through rapid antigen tests and one each during RT-PCR and TrueNat tests, he said. The state now has 778 active coronavirus cases, while 15,488 people have been cured of the disease and 54 patients have succumbed to the infection to date, the official said. The recovery rate among the coronavirus patients in the state stands at 94.90 per cent, he said. The state’s positivity and fatality rates stand at 5.10 per cent and 0.33 per cent respectively.

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