Assam reported 16 more Covid19 deaths and 1,579 new positive cases in the last 24 hours.

Assam health minister Keshab Mahanta, while informing about the news in a tweet on Sunday evening, said the new cases were confirmed out of 97,257 tests.

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The overall positivity percentage of Assam on Sunday stood at 1.62%.

Of the new cases, the Kamrup Metro registered 150.

Hundreds of other patients, who were earlier infected by Covid19, recovered from the disease in the last 24 hours.

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The stateโ€™s Covid19 recovery rate stood at 95.10%.

โ€œSummary of 11/7/2021 โ€“  Todayโ€™s Total 1579; Overall Positivity Percentage; (1579 cases out of 97,257 test done = 1.62%); Kamrup(M) 150; Death 16; Recovery Rate 95.10%,โ€ health minister mahanta tweeted on Sunday evening.

On Saturday, Assam reported 24 Covid19 deaths and 2,391 positive cases.

The new cases were confirmed out of 1,33,308 tests on Saturday.

Assamโ€™s overall positivity percentage of Assam stood at 1.79% on Saturday.

Of the new cases, the Kamrup Metro district reported 228 cases and the stateโ€™s Covid19 recovery rate on Saturday stood at 94.86%.

Meanwhile, India registered a total of 41,506 new Covid19 cases in the last 24 hours.

The countryโ€™s active caseload currently stands at 4,54,118.

The active Covid19 cases in India constitute 1.47% of the total cases.

A total of 2,99,75,064 people have recovered across the country so far.

A total of 41,526 patients recovered in the last 24 hours and the recovery rate increased to 97.20% on the day.