Assam has registered 2,684 new COVID19 positive cases on Tuesday, taking the stateโ€™s overall tally to 1,11,724.

Confirming the news, Assam health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma in his latest tweet on the stateโ€™s COVID19 status on Tuesday night said the new cases have been detected out of 37,066 tests conducted.

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โ€œAlert ~ 2684 #COVID cases detected today out of 37066 tests done in last 24 hours,โ€ health minister Sarma tweeted.

Assamโ€™s positivity rate stands at 7.24%, Sarma said.

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Out of the positive cases detected on Tuesday, Kamrup Metro has reported 618 cases, Cachar 174; Dibrugarh 157 and Jorhat has reported 141 new cases.

A total of 85,458 patients have recovered from the disease so far in the state.

Assam currently has 25,948 active COVID19 cases.

On Tuesday, 9 more positive patients succumbed to COVID19 infections in Assam, taking the stateโ€™s death toll to 315.

The deceased are from Jorhat, Hojai, Nalbari, Dhemaji, Karimganj and Dibrugarh districts.

Jorhat district reported 2 COVID19 deaths while Hojai district reported 3 deaths.

The COVID19 victims from Jorhat have been identified as 68-year-old Bulindra Nath Borah and 58-year-old Tirtha Gogoi.

The victims from Hojai district, who died of the disease, have been identified as 39-year-old Papri Nandi, 54-year-old Mantosh Roy and 45-year-old Nazrul Islam.

The other victims have been identified as 75-year-old Keshab Ch Das from Nalbari; 45-year-old Pranita Bharali from Dhemaji; 75-year-old Himangshu Sengupta from Karimganj and 72-year-old Subal Dey from Dibrugarh.