The COVID-19 deaths in Assam increased to 528 with 17 more positive patients succumb to the disease, while the workload status rose to 1.50349 after 1,380 infections occurred on Thursday.
health and welfare minister of Assam Himanta Biswa Sarma family in a tweet said five of the 17 fatalities were recorded in fresh Kamrup district, three in Sonitpur, two each in Kamrup
Baksa and one metropolitan and in the districts of Tinsukia, Cachar, Dibrugarh, Darrang and Dhubri.
The new cases include 3266 376 123 Kamrup and Jorhat districts. New infections were detected out of 20,557 tests in the last 24 hours, Sarma said.
Assam now has 30,454 active cases, while 1,19,364 patients have recovered from the disease and three migrated out of the state.