
No COVID-19 death reported for a week
The Hindu
Test positivity rate stood at 1.43% while the case fatality rate was 1.45%
No COVID-19 death has been reported in the Union Territory for a week even as 38 new cases were confirmed on Sunday. Puducherry logged 22 of the new cases, which were detected from 2,662 tests, followed by Mahe (10) and Karaikal (6).
The test positivity rate was 1.43%, case fatality rate 1.45% and recovery rate 98.21%. With 45 patients recovering from COVID in the last 24 hours, the active cases stood at 430. Of these, 97 patients were in hospitals and 333 in home isolation.
The cumulative toll remained at 1,857 — Puducherry (1,453), Karaikal (250), Yanam (107) and Mahe (47).

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