Port Blair, Apr 23 (PTI) Andaman and Nicobar Islands COVID-19 tally surged to 5,527 as 37 more people tested positive for the infection while one new fatality pushed the death toll in the union territory to 65, a health department official said on Friday.

Twenty-eight new COVID-19 cases were detected during contact tracing while nine were airport arrivals, the official said.

The archipelago now has 153 active COVID-19 cases with 147 patients in South Andaman district and six in North and Middle Andaman district. The Nicobar district has no active COVID-19 case at present, he said.

Thirty-three more people have been cured of the disease, taking the total number of COVID-19 recoveries in the union territory to 5,309.

The administration has so far tested over 3,58,903 samples for COVID-19. The test positivity rate is 1.54 per cent, he said.

More than 85,000 people have been vaccinated in the union territory so far, the official added.

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