Coronavirus pandemic: Assam logs 36 fresh cases and two deaths

Assam recorded 36 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, eight more than the previous day, taking the overall caseload to 7,24,013, a National Health Mission (NHM) bulletin said.

The number of COVID-19 deaths remained at two for the third consecutive day.

The day's positivity rate also increased to 0.75 per cent on Tuesday compared to 0.55 per cent the previous day.

The number of sample tests came down to 4,794 on Tuesday against 5,119 on Monday.

Assam has been reporting fresh infections below 50 for the sixth consecutive day on Tuesday.

Kamrup Metropolitan, which primarily comprises Guwahati, recorded the highest number of new cases on Tuesday