Gangtok: Sikkim on Sunday reported 43 cases in East Sikkim district, 15 in West Sikkim, three in South Sikkim and one in North Sikkim, according to a health department bulletin. Which took the state's tally to 30,955. There was no increase in the death toll to 379. There are currently 713 active cases, while 29,556 patients have recovered from coronavirus. The Himalayan state tested 686 samples for COVID-19 during the last 24 hours, taking the total number of such tests conducted so far to 2,42,571. The bulletin said Sikkim's COVID-19 positivity rate and recovery rate are 9.2 per cent and 96.4 per cent, respectively.

Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Monday said that India will resume its Vaccine maitri initiative in October. The central government had supplied over 66 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to over 70 countries as part of the Vaccine Maitri initiative earlier this year. He said that surplus vaccines would be exported as per India's commitment to collective fight against COVID-19.

Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya also said that in the month of October alone, more than 30 crore doses of Kovid-19 vaccines will be produced in India. He told the media that more than 100 crore doses will be produced in the fourth quarter of this year. The Center had halted the export of COVID-19 vaccines in March due to a sharp jump in the number of infections back home.

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