No new Covid-19 case in Andamans

Port Blair: Andaman and Nicobar Islands did not report any new COVID-19 case in the last 24-hours, a health department official said on Tuesday.

The COVID-19 tally in the union territory remained at 5,031, he said.

The archipelago now has three active COVID-19 cases, while 4,966 people have recovered from the disease.

The death toll remained at 62 as no new fatality due to the infection was reported in the last 24



hours.

The union territory administration has so far tested 2,94,094 samples for COVID-19 and the test positivity rate is 1.71 per cent, he said.

Altogether, 11,923 health professionals and frontline workers have been inoculated till Monday, and 1,571 people above 45 years of age have received the vaccine shots, the official said.

A total of 3,686 health care workers have also received the second dose of the vaccine.