Dispur: Assam recorded 318 new COVID19 cases and 3 more deaths in the last 24 hours. With the freash cases the state’s positive tally to 2,00,709 while the fatality rate increased to 868. In the last 24 hours, the virus took the lives of 3 more positive patients. Sarma while sharing the latest data regarding the state’s COVID19 status on his Twitter handle said the new cases were detected out of 13,547 tests conducted.The positivity rate of the state stands at 2.35%.
Taking to the Twitter, Health Minister wrote, “318 Cases detected out of 13547 tests conducted, with a positivity rate of 2.35%." Talking about recovered patients and active cases, while 85.53% of the total number of positive patients recovered from the disease, 14.02% are still active. So far a total of 1,71,680 patients have recovered from the disease in Assam while 28,158 are still active. The death rate stands at 0.43%.
Meanwhile, Assam government has been making changes in its guidelines to prevent corona pandemic. The government has to issue new COVID-19 rules for incoming passengers to the state may be introduced soon in Assam. State health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that the rules- if introduced- would be applied only from November 1.
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