Gangtok, Jul 30 (PTI) Sikkim's COVID-19 tally rose to 42,116 as 113 more people tested positive for the infection while one new fatality pushed the death toll to 471, a health department bulletin said on Saturday.

The daily COVID-19 positivity rate was 12.7 per cent as the 113 new infections were detected out of 928 samples tested in the last 24 hours, it said.

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The Himalayan state now has 1,043 active COVID-19 cases, while 39,825 people have recovered from the disease and 777 have migrated to other states so far, the bulletin said.

A total of 3,60,187 samples have been tested for COVID-19 so far. it added.

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