This story is from August 3, 2020

Assam's Covid death count reaches 109, but 0.25% mortality rate lowest in country

With four more Covid-19 deaths on Monday, the state’s total mortality count has risen to 109, but the mortality rate continues to hover around 0.25%, which is the lowest in the country.
Assam's Covid death count reaches 109, but 0.25% mortality rate lowest in country
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GUWAHATI: With four more Covid-19 deaths on Monday, the state’s total mortality count has risen to 109, but the mortality rate continues to hover around 0.25%, which is the lowest in the country.
Over 87% of the Covid-19 deaths in the state have been reported in the last 30 days with an average of three fatalities per day.
Informing the four deaths on Monday in a tweet, health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said, “Always painful to lose your own.
Sad at 4 lives lost today due to #COVID19.” The four deaths were reported from Kamrup Metropolitan district, Sivasagar, Tinsukia and Dibrugarh.
Till Sunday the national mortality was over 2% and Kerala with 0.33% was second behind Assam. On the other end Gujarat has the highest mortality rate of 3.94% in the country.
In the last hours the cumulative count of confirmed Covid-19 cases reached 42,904 while the cumulative count of recoveries reached 32,384. Till Sunday 10,408 were in active stage and under treatment in Covid hospitals and Covid care centres.
The recovery rate in the northeastern state is 75 per cent which is the fourth best in the country, and in testing it ranks fifth with 27,544 tests per million while positive cases are now doubling in the state in 15.8 days. The doubling time was 12.1 days on July 16.

The state is testing nearly 20,000 samples daily with positive cases ranging from five to seven per cent. Till Sunday 9,64,449 samples have been tested in 17 government-run laboratories, a few outsourced laboratories and through rapid antigen tests.
Meanwhile, Sarma on Monday minister held a meeting with the General Officer in Command 4 Corps Lt Gen S Dayal along with senior officials of the state police and Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) to seek their support to motivate recovered symptomatic COVID-19 patients to donate plasma.
At present, Assam has two plasma banks - at the Gauhati Medical College Hospital and Tezpur Medical College Hospital.
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Prabin Kalita

Prabin Kalita is a journalist at The Times of India and is currently the Chief of Bureau (northeast). He has been reporting in mainstream Indian national media since 2001. He has been a field journalist reporting gamut of issues from India’s northeastern region and major developments in neighbouring countries like Myanmar, China, Bhutan and Bangladesh concerning India and northeastern region. He has been covering insurgency—internal and cross-border, politics, natural calamities, environment etc. He is a post-graduate in Geological Sciences from Gauhati University.

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