ITANAGAR: The Covid-19 caseload in Arunachal Pradesh rose to 55,043 with 12 more people tested positive for the infection, a senior health official said here on Thursday. The death toll in the frontier state remained at 280 as no casualty was reported in the past 24 hours, the official said. Arunachal Pradesh now has 138 active cases, while 54,625 people have recuperated from the disease thus far including, 19 on Wednesday, State Surveillance Officer (SSO) Dr Lobsang Jampa said. The recovery rate stands at 99.24 per cent while the percentage of active cases is 0.25, he said.
West Kameng district has the highest number of active cases at 48, followed by Namsai (20, Tawang (15) and Shi Yomi at 11 cases, the SSO said.
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