 "Andaman and Nicobar logs 8 new Covid-19 cases, infection tally at 10,157")
The Union Territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands reported eight new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, four less than the previous day, pushing the tally to 10,157, a health department official said.
Five patients have travel history while three infections were detected during contact tracing, the official said.
The archipelago now has 42 active COVID-19 cases, while 9,986 people have recovered from the disease, including four in the last 24 hours, he said.
A total of 129 patients have succumbed to COVID-19 till date.
The union territory administration has so far tested 7,53,930 samples for COVID-19 and the cumulative test positivity rate is 1.35 per cent.
A total of 3,41,144 people have been inoculated with both doses of the vaccine so far, the official added.
(Only the headline and picture of this report may have been reworked by the Business Standard staff; the rest of the content is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
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