Arunachal Pradesh's COVID-19 has touched nearly the 5,000-mark on Sunday as 139 more people, including 20 security personnel, tested positive for the infection, a senior health official said to PTI.
The fresh infections have taken the northeastern state's caseload to 4,914, he said.
Barring 16, all the new patients are asymptomatic and they have been shifted to COVID-19 care centers, the report said.
Six Army men, nine Assam Rifles jawans, three Indo- Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) personnel and two policemen are among the new patients, it said.
As many as 101 more people have been cured of the disease and discharged from hospitals, he said.
Arunachal Pradesh now has 1,525 active COVID-19 cases, while 3,381 people have recovered from the disease so far, and eight patients have succumbed to the infection, the official said.
The recovery rate among the COVID-19 patients in the state now stands at 68.80 per cent, he said.
The state has so far tested 1,83,390 samples for COVID-19, including 3,017 on Saturday, he added.
