No deaths reported, 50 test positive
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, February 23 2022:
Breaking the 'daily deaths due to Covid' trend for the last many days, Manipur registered no deaths in the last 24 hours keeping the total number of fatalities at 2014 .
The low count continues too with the State registering 50 new cases including 4 Central security personnel to take the total Covid infection to 1,36,598 including 5007 Central security personnel.
The 50 new cases were detected while testing a total sample of 1352 to take the daily positivity rate to 3.7 percent.
This is the third day on the trot that the positivity rate has fallen below the 5 percent mark.
In a statement, the COVID-19 Common Control Room said that the new cases were detected at RIMS (4), JNIMS (8) and other testing centres (38) .
The 46 new cases from amongst the general population are from Imphal East (14), Imphal West (11), Thoubal (3), Bishnupur (3), Kakching (2), Kamjong (1), Tengnoupal (1), Senapati (2), Chandel (4) and Churachandpur (5) .
The number of active cases is 565.On the other hand 81 persons were discharged in the last 24 hours from home isolation (65), RIMS (3), JNIMS (5) and CCCs (8) .
The cumulative number of recovered cases is now 1,33,929 including 4980 Central security personnel and the recovery rate has gone up to 98.05 percent.