Sikkim logs 90 new COVID-19 cases, 1 fresh fatality
Gangtok: Sikkim's COVID-19 tally rose to 29,729 on Saturday as 90 more people tested positive for the infection, while one fresh fatality pushed the Himalayan state's coronavirus death toll to 369, a health bulletin said.
East Sikkim registered the highest number of new cases at 55, followed by 16 each in South Sikkim and West Sikkim, and three in North Sikkim.
Sikkim now has 1,333 active cases, while 27,746 people have recovered from the disease, and 281 patients have migrated to other states so far, it said.
The recovery rate among the coronavirus patients in the state stood at 94.2 per cent.
The Himalayan state has tested over 2.29 lakh samples for COVID-19 so far, including 810 in the last 24 hours, the bulletin said, adding that the positivity rate stood at 11 per cent.
