COVID-19 cases in Assam police soar to 2009, death toll at 5

The number of COVID-19 cases in Assam Police has gone up to 2009, ADGP (Law and Order) GP Singh informed on August 5^th, 2020.

Of the 2009 confirmed cases, 1413 have recovered, of whom 546 have rejoined duty while five died due to the infection.

Meanwhile, the total number of COVID-19 cases in Assam has gone up to 50445 with 2284 new cases reported on August 5^th, 2020. Of the 2284 confirmed COVID-19 cases, 362 were from  Kamrup (M), 177 from Dibrugarh, 157 from Nagaon and 123 from Kamrup (R).

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Of the 50,445 total cases, 14429 are still active and 35892 have recovered so far while the death toll has increased to 121 with six new deaths.

The deceased are Ramesh Chandra Medhi (81) of Kamrup (M), Ram Kumar Mahato (58) and Tarini Charan Kalita (60) of Dibrugarh, Badal Debnath (56) of Tinsukia, Kanu Paul (56) of Cachar and Lalbhanu Khatoon (35) of Darrang.

Assam has registered the highest number of COVID-19 cases in the Northeast followed by 1901 active cases in Tripura, 1807 in Nagaland and 1224 in Manipur.

The Covid-19 tally in India rose to 19,64,536 on Thursday after over 56,000 fresh cases were reported within a span of 24 hours. The death toll also increased from 39,795 to 40,699, according to latest data released by the Ministry of Health Affairs.

For a week now, India has reported a daily increase of over 50,000 in fresh coronavirus cases pushing the country’s tally to over 19 lakh cases. At 51,700, the number of recoveries was also the highest-ever for a single day on Wednesday.

With the virus spreading rapidly all over the country, there are only three states right now, Meghalaya, Sikkim and Andaman and Nicobar Islands, that have less than 1,000 people infected with the disease. Lakshadweep, hasn’t reported even a single case till now, becoming the only region in India entirely free of the epidemic.

Globally, over 18.7 million people have been infected with the novel coronavirus; over seven lakh have died so far. The United States continued to be the worst-affected followed by Brazil and India.

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