Nagaland Covid-19 tally at 2,129 with single-day highest spike

Nagaland Covid-19 tally crossed 2000 with a single-day highest spike of 194 positive cases on Monday. The state’s positive cases now reached 2,129, out of which 1473 are active, 648 patients recovered and four died.

“194 new +ve cases have been confirmed out of 845 samples tested,” health and family welfare minister S Pangnyu Phom said in his official Twitter handle in the afternoon. 

Of the 194 new positive cases, 136 are from Dimapur, 36 from Zunheboto and 22 from Kohima, he said.

Phom said necessary contact tracing have been activated and all primary contacts are under self isolation.

In a statement on Sunday, Phom said there was no community transmission in the state as of now as history of contacts has been established in all cases. He said vigorous contact tracing is being carried out and in all positive cases the source of infection has been traced.

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Phom said out of the total reported mortalities, some are attributed to Covid-19 infection with multiple co-morbidities. All the reported Covid-19 death cases are presently under investigation by the Covid-19 death review committees at the district and state level, he added.

Phom said such cases will be confirmed as Covid-19 death or otherwise based their report.

The directorate of health and family welfare of the state constituted a Covid-19 death review committee on July 28 to review and ascertain the causes and circumstances leading to the deaths related to the pandemic.

The committee comprises a team of nine doctors with subject experts.

The directorate also asked the chief medical officer and medical superintendent of all districts to constitute district Covid-19 death review committee with officers from the district health authority and subject experts from the district hospital/health centre.

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