Port Blair, Aug 9 (PTI) The COVID-19 tally of Andaman and Nicobar Islands rose to 7,546 on Monday as two more people tested positive for the infection, a health bulletin said.

Both the fresh infections were detected during contact tracing, it said.

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The Union territory now has seven active cases, while 7,410 people have recovered from the disease so far.

A total of 129 patients have succumbed to the infection to date, of whom 67 have died in the second wave of the pandemic since March 1, the bulletin said.

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The administration has tested over 4.51 lakh samples for COVID-19, and inoculated 3.02 lakh people to date, it added.

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