The union territory of Puducherry added 42 fresh COVID-19 cases during the last 24 hours pushing the overall tally to 1,66,305, a top Health department official said on Sunday.
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The number of active cases shot up to 238 as against the 216 on Saturday, Director of Health G Sriramulu said in a release here.Â
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Of the 238 active cases, four patients were in hospitals, and the remaining 234 were in-home quarantine.Â
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The overall caseload was 1,66,305, he added.
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He said the 42 new infections were detected after the Department of Health examined 1,271 samples during the last 24 hours ending 10 AM Sunday.
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Sriramulu said as many as 20 patients recovered during the last twenty-four hours and the overall recoveries were 1,64,105.
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There were no fresh fatalities and the death toll remained at 1,962, he added.
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The Health Department has so far examined 22,84,129 samples and has found 19,28,323 out of them to be negative.
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The test positivity rate which was 3.19 percent on Saturday went up to 3.30 percent today.
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The fatality and recovery rates were 1.18 percent and 98.68 percent respectively.
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Sriramulu said the Department of Health has so far administered 18,39,664 doses which comprised 9,71,291 first doses, 7,37,560 second doses, and 30,813 booster doses.
