Puducherry Feb 24 PTI Puducherry posted 18 new cases of coronavirus during the last 24 hours ending 10 am on Thursday pushing the total positives to 165676The 18 fresh cases identified at the end of examination of 2000 samples were spread over Puducherry 12 Karaikal five and Yanam oneMahe an enclave of Puducherry in Kerala registered no fresh case of infectionNo fresh fatality was reported from any of the four regions and the toll remained 1960Director of Health GSriramulu said in a release that 52 patients recovered and were discharged during the last twenty-four hours and the overall recoveries so far were 163489The active cases were 227 which comprised 19 patients in hospitals undergoing treatment while the remaining 208 patients were in home quarantineThe Director noted that the test positivity rate was 090 percent while the fatality and recovery rates were 118 percent and 9868 percent respectivelyThe Health Department has tested so far 2208874 samples and has found 1854030 out of them to be negativeThe department had administered so far 1582421 doses which comprised 930257 first doses 639951 second and 12213 booster doses PTI COR ROH ROH
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