{"id":13272,"date":"2020-08-08T20:10:11","date_gmt":"2020-08-08T20:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=13272"},"modified":"2020-08-08T20:10:11","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T20:10:11","slug":"14-covid-19-patients-die-in-assam-in-24-hours-toll-now-140-guwahati-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=13272","title":{"rendered":"14 Covid-19 patients die in Assam in 24 hours; toll now 140 | Guwahati News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>GUWAHATI: <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/assam\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" data-ga=\"within_article-topic_link|topic_https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/assam\" frmappuse=\"1\">Assam<\/a>\u2019s Covid-19 death count jumped to 140 after 14 patients succumbed in the last 24 hours\u2014eight of them being on Saturday. But, the <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/mortality-rate\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" data-ga=\"within_article-topic_link|topic_mortality-rate\" frmappuse=\"1\">mortality rate<\/a> continue to remain around 0.24%. <br \/>The <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/positivity-rate\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" data-ga=\"within_article-topic_link|topic_positivity-rate\" frmappuse=\"1\">positivity rate<\/a> also remained below 5% as the cumulative count of confirmed cases reached 55,496 in last 24 hours, out of which 17,755 are from <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/Kamrup\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" data-ga=\"within_article-topic_link|topic_Kamrup\" frmappuse=\"1\">Kamrup<\/a> (metro) district alone. <br \/>The recovery rate on the other hand also stayed close to 70% as 16,544 patients remain in active conditions in different hospitals and Covid care centres. So far 38,809 patients have recovered. <br \/>Informing the last eight deaths, state health minister <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/Himanta-Biswa-Sarma\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" data-ga=\"within_article-topic_link|topic_Himanta-Biswa-Sarma\" frmappuse=\"1\">Himanta Biswa Sarma<\/a> tweeted, \u201cSad with the demise of 8 Covid patients.\u201d The eight deceased include a 45-year and a 52-year from Nalbari, a 54-year a 50-year and 48-year from <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/Morigaon\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" data-ga=\"within_article-topic_link|topic_Morigaon\" frmappuse=\"1\">Morigaon<\/a> , a 46 \u2013year from Kokrajhar, a 55-year from Nagaon and a 60-yer from <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/Dibrugarh\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" data-ga=\"within_article-topic_link|topic_Dibrugarh\" frmappuse=\"1\">Dibrugarh<\/a>. <br \/>In the last 24 hours, 58,531 tests were conducted among which 2679 samples tested positive. In this regard Sarma tweeted, \u201cPositivity rate continues to be low at 4.57%. Kamrup (M)- 442, Kamrup (R)- 265, Cachar- 250, Nagaon- 172.\u201d <br \/>With the latest numbers, Assam has reported a total of 55,496 cases of Covid-19, of which 17,755 are from the state capital alone. <br \/>Assam BJP MLA Mihir Kanti Shome who tested positive for Covid-19 on Friday became the eighth legislator to get infected by virus in the state. <br \/>The Health and Family Welfare Department in its media bulletin said the doubling rate of the cases has increased to 16.3 days at 52,817 cases on August 6 from 13.9 days as on July 21, when there were 26,772 cases. <br \/>A total of 12,38,867 samples have been tested so far across the state in government-run laboratories and a few outsourced labs, the bulletin stated, which indicates that the state\u2019s per million test stands at 36,126. <br \/>It also said a total of 131 people have donated their plasma for treatment of other Covid-19 patients in plasma banks set up across five medical college hospitals in the state. <br \/>Assam Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order) G P Singh tweeted that a total of 2,154 personnel from the force have tested positive till date, out of whom 1,543 have recovered. Of them, 607 have joined the duty after recovery. \u201cUnfortunately, we&#8217;ve lost six colleagues till date,\u201d he added. <\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/guwahati\/14-covid-19-patients-die-in-assam-in-24-hours-toll-now-140\/articleshow\/77437513.cms\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUWAHATI: Assam\u2019s Covid-19 death count jumped to 140 after 14 patients succumbed in the last 24 hours\u2014eight of them being on Saturday. But, the mortality rate continue to remain around 0.24%. The positivity rate also remained below 5% as the cumulative count of confirmed cases reached 55,496 in last 24 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kolkata"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/1596917412_photo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}