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Nagaland extends lockdown till July 15 amid rise in COVID-19

Nagaland extends lockdown till July 15 amid rise in COVID-19

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The Nagaland government extended the lockdown in the state till July 15th, 2020 after reviewing the existing lockdown measures. This was decided by the state cabinet in a meeting on June 29th, 2020.

In his routine briefing, Principal Secretary (Home) Abhijit Sinha said the cabinet was briefed on the COVID-19 situation in the state by the health and home departments before it took the decision. An order has been accordingly issued today, Sinha said.

He said the existing guidelines with regard to the lockdown in all parts of the state issued by an order dated on May 4th, 2020, subject to relaxations issued by subsequent order on June 10th, 2020 regarding opening of religious places/places of worship for public and the order on June 20 regarding plying of local taxis and auto rickshaws in the border sub-divisions, will continue to remain operative till July 15th.

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Sinha said as, on Monday, the number of positive cases in the state stood at 451. Out of this, the active cases are 281 while 168 people have recovered. All the positive persons are receiving medical care at the designated Covid-19 hospitals. As per the severity of symptoms, all the 266 active cases are asymptomatic.

Sinha also said 7,637 samples have been tested out of 11,661 samples sent for testing. Altogether 4,897 samples have been tested by Truenat, out of which 85 samples tested positive and sent for confirmation by RT-PCR.

A total of 5181 persons are presently under facility quarantine, he added.

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Edited By: Admin
Published On: Jun 30, 2020