Ahmedabad, Sep 15 (PTI) The coronavirus count in Gujarat rose to 1,16,345 on Tuesday with the addition of 1,349 new cases, while a record 1,444 patients recovered from the infection, the state health department said.

With 17 more fatalities in the last 24 hours, the death toll increased to 3,247, the department said.

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Also, 1,444 patients were discharged from hospitals, the highest single-day recovery, taking the number of such cases in the state to 96,709, it said.

With this, the state's recovery rate stood at 82.84 per cent, the department said in a release.

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As many as 78,182 tests were conducted in the state in the last 24 hours at a rate of 1,202.80 tests per day per million population, it said.

This took the number of samples tested in the state so far to 34,38,500.

Gujarat COVID-19 figures are as follows: Positive cases 1,16,345, new cases 1,349, deaths 3,247, discharged 96,709, active cases 16,389, people tested so far 34,38,500.

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