<span style="color: #222222;">In Manipur, three persons have died due to COVID-19 infection in the past twenty four hours taking the COVID death toll in the State to 197.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">On the other hand, 245 people have tested positive in the past 24 hours in the state.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">With these cases, the total number of affected people in the state has reached 20376.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Among the new cases, 242 are locals and do not have travel history. They are suspected to be infected through local transmission.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Meanwhile, Three hundred and fifty eight people were discharged in the past twenty four hours in the State and the recovery rate has improved to 83.78 percent.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">So far, Manipur has recorded total recovered and discharged cases of 17072 while the number of active cases is 3107.</span><br />''