July 16, 2021: Assam’s COVID-19 caseload mounted to 5,44,227 on Wednesday as 1782 more people tested positive for the infection while 24 fresh fatalities pushed the death toll to 4961, the National Health Mission bulletin said.

Golaghat district reported the highest number of new cases at 175, followed by 174 in Kamrup (M), 127 in Lakhimpur and 114 in Sivasagar.

The number of active cases in the state is 18,222.

Of the 24 fatalities, 3 deaths reported each from Lakhimpur and Golaghat followed two each from Kamrup(M and Dhubri.

Total 5,19,697 COVID-19 patients have recovered from the infection so far.

The current death rate is 0.91 per cent and the number of COVID-19 positive patients dying due to other causes is 1,347.