Assam’s COVID-19 woes seems to have risen with single-day cases tally showing an upwards trend.  

On Friday, Assam logged as many as 2348 new COVID-19 cases.  

These new cases in Assam have been detected after conducting tests of 30,109 samples.  

Assam’s COVID-19 positivity rate on Friday stood at 7.80%.  

Out of the new 2348 COVID-19 cases, 870 were detected from in and around Guwahati city. 

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The number of cases detected in Guwahati on Friday is 200 less than what was logged on Thursday.  

On Thursday, Assam reported 3238 cases at a positivity rate of 7.87%  

Moreover, at least five persons lost their lives to the deadly virus is the last 24 hours.