GUWAHATI: Six more persons died of COVID-19 in Assam on Wednesday taking the death toll up to 161 till date.
Sharing the information, Assam Health Minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma in a tweet tonight identified the deceased as Himangshu Dey (70) of Cachar, Debabrata Choudhury (49) of Karimganj, Dhaneswar Sharma (56) of Dhemaji, Biswajit Ghosh (53) and Mahesh Baruah (60) of Dibrugarh and M I Hussain (58) of Kamrup Metro
Meanwhile, 4593 COVID cases detected out of 143109 (maximum) tests done in a single day with positivity rate just 3.20%. Of the new cases 632 are in Kamrup (M), 460 in Kamrup (R), 355 in Nagaon and 265 in Dibrugarh.
As many as 2136 patients were discharged from various COVID care centres and hospitals in the state today.
