Six more patients succumbed to COVID19 infections in Assam on Tuesday, taking the state’s death toll to 203 while the state registered 2,534 new positive cases detected on the day.

Sharing the news of the demise of 6 more patients, Assam health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma in a tweet on Tuesday said: “Sad to share the demise of 6 Covid patients.”

Health minister Sarma informed that the COVID19 victims are from Kamrup Rural, Kamrup Metro, Karimganj and Cachar districts.

The victims have been identified as 69-year-old Sunandaram Deka and 31-year-old Bikrant Singh Chetri from Kamrup Rural district; 72-year-old Gour Gopal Biswas from Kamrup Metro; 39-year-old Saif Uddin from Karimganj, and 75-year-old Subhash Chandra Acharjee & 55-year-old Pradip Kumar Singha from Cachar district.

Meanwhile, Assam has registered 2,534 new COVID19 positive cases, taking the state’s overall tally to 82,201.

Health minister Sarma in a tweet said the new cases have been detected out of 44,416 tests.

“Alert ~ 2534 #COVID cases detected today out of 44416 tests done in last 24 hours,” Sarma said.

The health minister informed that Assam’s positivity rate stands at 5.7%.

Of the positive cases, Kamrup Metro has reported 498 cases, Dibrugarh has reported 267 cases, 244 cases have been detected in Cachar and 145 new positive cases have been detected in Kamrup Rural district, Sarma said.

With the new cases, Assam currently has 25,261 COVID19 active patients.

A total of 56,734 patients have been discharged from various hospitals or Covid care Centres across Assam after their recovery.