itanagar twenty more people tested positive for covid19 in arunachal pradesh on saturday taking the states tally of coronavirus patients to 252 a senior health official said of the fresh cases eight were reported from west kameng district and six each from the capital complex and changlang surveillance officer dr l jampa said all the cases were reported from quarantine centres sixteen of them were asymptomatic while four have symptoms of the infection he saidthe new patients had recently returned from assam bihar tamil nadu uttar pradesh haryana madhya pradesh maharashtra west bengal gujarat jharkhand and telangana jampa said the four symptomatic patients from west kameng have been admitted to the military hospital while the remaining 16 have been shifted to covid care centres jampa saidfour patients three in changlang and one in west kameng were discharged from covid care centres on friday and advised to stay in home quarantine for 14 days he added arunachal pradesh now has 176 active cases while 75 patients have recovered from the disease and one has died of the infectionthe capital complex is the worstaffected area in the state of arunachal pradesh with 81 cases of covid19 followed by changlang 52 west kameng 21 and namsai 10a total of 25917 samples have been tested for the disease in the state till friday and the results of 1584 are awaited jampa said