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Guwahati, Sep 17 (PTI) A total of 7,09,524 people received the COVID-19 vaccine in Assam on Friday as the state government undertook a mega inoculation drive on the occasion of Prime Minister Narendra Modi"s birthday, a bulletin said.
Over 2.16 crore people have been immunised, and 44.02 lakh of them got both doses of the vaccines, it said.
The special drive was conducted in 4,575 COVID Vaccination Centres (CVCs), of which 4,557 were government sites and 18 private ones.
The northeastern state, however, reported nine more COVID deaths during the day, raising the toll to 5,788, and the coronavirus tally mounted to 5,97,344 with 270 fresh cases, the National Health Mission bulletin said.
Golaghat reported three fresh fatalities, while two were registered in Kamrup Metro, and one each in Jorhat, Karimganj, Nagaon and Sonitpur.
The current death rate is 0.97 per cent, and 1,347 COVID-positive patients have died due to other ailments.