Puducherry Dec 28 PTI Puducherry clocked nine fresh COVID-19 cases during the last 24 hours taking the overall tally to 129434 a senior official of the Department of Health said on Tuesday No fresh fatality was reported from any of the four regions for the ninth straight day and the death toll remained at 1880 Director of Health G Sriramulu said in a release The nine new cases were identified at the end of the examination of 2265 samples and were spread over Puducherry two Karaikal four and Mahe three Yanam region an enclave in Andhra Pradesh did not report any fresh case of infection in the last 24 hours ending 10 AM Tuesday the Director said The Health Department has so far tested 2041 074 samples and has found 1730197 out of them to be negative The number of active cases stood at 119 which included 38 patients in hospitals and 81 in home isolation he said While 16 patients recovered and were discharged during the last 24 hours the overall recoveries climbed to 127435 The test positivity rate was 040 per cent while the fatality and recovery rates were 145 per cent and 9846 per cent respectively The Health Department has so far administered 1381069 doses which comprised 829775 first doses and 551294 were second doses PTI Cor SS SS