Gangtok: Sikkim’s COVID-19 tally rose to 42,812 as 28 more people tested positive for the infection while two new fatalities pushed the death toll to 476, a health department bulletin said on Tuesday.
The daily positivity rate is 12.61 per cent. The Himalayan state now has 417 active COVID-19 cases.
A total of 41,140 people have recovered from the virus while 779 patients have migrated to other states.
Sikkim tested 222 samples for COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of samples tested so far to 3,66,636.
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