 "Covid-19 pandemic: Sikkim logs 98 new cases and three fatalities")
Sikkim's COVID-19 tally rose to 38,250 as 98 more people tested positive for the infection while three new fatalities pushed the death toll to 432, a health department bulletin said on Tuesday.
Of the 98 new cases, East Sikkim district logged 47 followed by 39 in West Sikkim, 9 in South Sikkim and 3 in North Sikkim district.
The Himalayan state now has 852 active COVID-19 cases, while 36,285 people have recovered from the disease and 681 patients have migrated to other states, it said.
The COVID-19 daily positivity rate now is 7.9 per cent, while the daily recovery rate is 96.6 per cent, the bulletin said.
Sikkim had reported 53 new COVID-19 cases on Monday.
The state has so far tested 3,10,614 samples for COVID-19, including 1,230 samples in the last 24 hours.
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