OUR CORRESPONDENT
ITANAGAR: Arunachal Pradesh recorded three more COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, pushing the total caseload in the state to 16,767, said State Surveillance Officer (SSO) DrLobsangJampa on Sunday.
Among the fresh cases, two were detected from the Capital Complex Region and one from Tawang district. All the cases were asymptomatic out of which two were detected through RAT and one by TrueNAT method. Meanwhile, 16 more infected people were cured on Saturday, taking the total number of recoveries in the State to 16,647. The COVID-19 recovery rate in the State is 99.26 per cent. Arunachal Pradesh now has 64 active cases, while 56 people have succumbed to the infection so far. The fatality ratio in is 0.33 per cent.
The Capital Complex region — comprising Itanagar, Naharlagun, Nirjuli and Banderdewa areas — has the highest number of active cases at 22, followed by East Siang (13) and Tawang (10).