Port Blair, Nov 16 (PTI) Nine more people tested positive for COVID-19 in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, pushing the union territory's coronavirus caseload to 4,536, a health department official said on Monday.

Of the nine new cases, five were detected during contact tracing, while four have travel history, the official said.

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Fifteen more people recovered from the disease taking the total number of COVID-19 recoveries in the union territory of 4,330.

The archipelago now has 145 active COVID-19 cases, while 61 people have died of the infection so far, he said.

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