Assam reported 21 more COVID-19 deaths and 2644 new positive cases in the last 24 hours. 

Confirming the news, Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma in a tweet on Thursday evening said the cases were confirmed out of 1,06,760 tests. 

The state’s Covid19 positivity percentage was 2.48% on Thursday. 

Of the new cases, the Kamrup Metro district reported 168 cases. 

Hundreds of patients, who were earlier infected by Covid19, recovered from the disease on Thursday. 

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The state’s Covid19 recovery rate stood at 94.72%.