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.

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.

The state’s Covid19 recovery rate stood at 95.10%.

“Summary of 11/7/2021 –  Today’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%,” 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.

Assam’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 state’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 country’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.

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