India News | 31 New Cases Push Tripura's COVID-19 Tally to 32,891

Agartala, Dec 6 (PTI) At least 31 more people tested positive for COVID-19 in Tripura on Sunday, pushing the tally in the state to 32,891, a health department official said.

The death toll remained at 369 as no new fatality due to the infection was reported, he said.

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West Tripura district, of which state capital Agartala is a part, has accounted for 186 of the 369 COVID-19 deaths, the official said.

Tripura currently has 454 active coronavirus cases, while 32,045 people have recovered from the disease.

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Twenty-three patients have migrated to other states, the official said.

On Saturday, sixty-three people were discharged from GB Pant Hospital, the main referral facility for COVID-19 patients in the state.

A total of 5,40,091 samples have been tested for COVID-19 in the northeastern state so far, he said.

"The state has conducted 3,31,258 rapid antigen tests and 2,08,833 samples were tested through RT-PCR method," he added.

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