Mnp Civid-19

 Daily fatalities down to 3; TPR below 10 pc

The HungHao
UKHRUL/Imphal: SHOWING a declining trend in daily Covid-19 fatalities after claiming lives of thousands in the State, three persons succumbed to the contagious infection in a span of 24 hours pushing the cumulative number of deaths to

1770 while 308 persons from the general population and three personnel from the Central Armed Police Force (CAPF) were confirmed as new fresh cases out of 3199 samples tested on Friday recording a  positivity rate of 9.70 percent. A total of 418 persons were also discharged in the past 24 hours bringing the recovery rate back to 95.33 percent.

According to Covid-19 Common Control Room, the positive persons were tested at RIMS (17), JNIMS (20), District Hospitals (193) and other testing centres (81). The positive cases from the general population are from Imphal East (78), Imphal West (125), Thoubal (22), Bishnupur (30), Kakching (2), Ukhrul (15), Churachandpur (13), Chandel (4), Senapati (8), Tamenglong (7), Tengnoupal (1) and Kangpokpi (3). All necessary medical precautionary measures like containment and contact racing are in place.

The State Level Covid-19 Deaths Audit Committee reported three deaths in the last 24 hours. The district wise distributions are Imphal West (1) and Imphal East (2). Out of the three deaths, two persons had co-morbidities and none of them had Covid vaccine. The 418 discharged persons are from Home Isolation (180), RIMS (11), JNIMS (13), CCCs (76) and CHICs (138).

The control room in a press release conveyed that the cumulative number of positive cases is 1, 12,666 (General Population - 1, 08,564 and Central Security Personnel - 4,102) while the cumulative number of recovered cases is 1, 07,410 (General Population - 1, 03,339 and Central Security Personnel - 4,071). The number of active cases is 3,486 (General Population - 3,460 and Central Security Personnel - 6), it informed.

In the last 24 hours, a total of 1334 D-type Oxygen cylinders and 326 B-1ype Oxygen cylinders have been made available to different health facilities of the State.

The number of doses of Covid-19 vaccine administered on Thursday is 3508 while the cumulative number of doses is 1503839 (first dose - 1181 800 and second dose - 322093), it disclosed.