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Itanagar, Jan 29: Single-day recoveries outnumbered fresh COVID-19 cases in Arunachal Pradesh as 379 more people recuperated from the disease in the last 24 hours, while 326 new infections were reported, a health department official said on Saturday.
The fresh cases pushed the COVID-19 tally in the northeastern state to 61,953, he said.
The state on Friday had registered 380 fresh infections. Altogether, 58,524 people have recovered from the disease so far, State Surveillance Officer (SSO) Dr Lobsang Jampa said.
The COVID-19 recovery rate currently is 94.46 per cent, he said. The COVID-19 death toll in the frontier state reached  286 as another fatality was reported due to the infection in the last 24 hours. A 78-year-old man died at Depi Mongku village, East Siang due to severe covid pneumonia.
Of the 326 new cases, 132 were registered in the Capital Complex Region, West Kameng with 36 and Papum Pare (33) were the other two districts with highest cases.
Of the new cases, 123 of them have developed Covid symptoms.
Arunachal Pradesh currently has 3,143 active COVID-19 cases. Over 12.36 lakh samples have been tested for COVID-19 so far, including 1276 on Saturday, Jampa said, adding that the positivity ratio stood at 25.5 per cent.
State Immunisation Officer Dr Dimong Padung said 15,74,963 people have been inoculated with COVID-19 vaccine so far.
At least 46,992 beneficiaries in the age group of 15-18 years have been vaccinated with the first dose and 16,165 senior citizens have received the booster jab. 

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