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On 6th day of total curfew Manipur logs 1248 new cases, 15 deaths
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, July 23 2021: On the sixth day of the total curfew which came into force from July 18, Manipur logged 1284 new cases and 15 deaths in the last 24 hours.

This is the third time for Manipur to log over 1000 cases on a single day, after the ten days total curfew came into force on July 18 .

On July 20, Manipur had totalled 1127 new cases and on July 21 the total was 1327 .

Today's total of 1284 cases is the second highest logged in a span of 24 hours in the State.

The 1248 new cases were detected out of a total of 6836 samples tested in the last 24 hours to take the daily positivity rate to 18.8 percent.

The 18.8 percent positivity rate on a single day is also the third highest recorded in 24 hours in the months of June and July this year.

On July 8, the State had recorded a daily positivity rate of 19.1 percent and on July 21, it was 19.4 percent.

With 1284 more testing positive for the virus, the total number of people who have contracted the disease has crossed the 90 thousand mark to now stand at 90262 including 3961 Central security personnel.

The Government has also notified that out of 83 samples sent for genome sequencing on July 1, 78 new cases were found to be of the Delta variant.

Fifteen more persons passed away due to the virus in the last 24 hours and out of the 15, only two have received the first dose of the vaccine, said the COVID-19 Common Control Room quoting a report from the State Level COVID-19 Deaths Audit Committee.

The 15 deceased persons were from Imphal West (7), Imphal East (2), Bishnupur (3), Kangpokpi (2) and Churachandpur (1) .

Of the 1284 persons who tested positive 675 were women, said the COVID-19 Common Control Room.

No Central security personnel were found positive during the same time span.

The 1284 persons were tested at RIMS (63), JNIMS (106), District Hospitals (860) and other testing centres (255) .

The persons who tested positive are from Imphal East (310), Imphal West (381), Thoubal (95), Bishnupur (117), Kakching (85), Ukhrul (14), Churachandpur (140), Chandel (51), Senapati (18), Tamenglong (34), Tengnoupal (17), Kangpokpi (9), Jiribam (5) and Noney (8) .

All necessary measures such as containment and contract tracing are in place, added the COVID-19 Common Control Room.

In the last 24 hours, 949 persons were discharged, including from home isolation (392), JNIMS (10), CCCs (155) and CHICs (392) .

However, for some reasons 776 persons were reported as discharged only today, said the COVID-19 Common Control Rooms and added that the total number of recovered cases is considered as 1725 after reconciliation with reports from IDSP team, home isolation team, community home isolation and hospitalisation teams.

The cumulative number of recovered cases is now 78,872 including 3894 Central security personnel and the recovery rate is 87.38 percent.

The number of active cases in Manipur as of now is 9,939 including 62 Central security personnel .

On July 22, the number of people vaccinated is 23,572 taking the total number to 11,34,710 .

The total includes 1,39,728 people who have received their second dose.

A total of 1862 D Type Oxygen cylinders and 388 B Type Oxygen cylinders were made available to different health centres in the last 24 hours across the State.

The number of beds as enumerated by the COVID-19 Common Control Room is RIMS (184 general and 40 ICU, contact number is given as 9862282521), JNIMS (167 general and 40 ICU, contact number is 7005403124), Raj Medicity (75 general and 25 ICU and contact numbers are 7005105552/9366496411), Shija Hospital (82 general and 43 ICU and contact numbers are 7005097688/7005125158), I Land Hospital, Canchipur (general 60 and ICU 0, contact numbers are 9540404955/7085206820), Jivan Hospital, Kakching (general 17 and ICU 8, contact number is 9366034272), Iboyaima Hospital, Singjamei (general 25, ICU 5, contacts numbers are 7005436870/9612022125), CMC Koirengei (general 32, ICU 8, contact numbers 9612636004/9612905628), MSF, Sangaiprou (general 22, ICU 8, contact number 9311222947) The number of beds in Covid Care Centres in Imphal area are Lamboikhongnangkhong (600, contact number 9366909420), NSU Khuman Lampak (195, contact number 9863526178), Bal Bhavan, Khuman Lampak (240, contact number 9863514338), Standard College, Kongba (60, contact number 7005065147), RD Wing, Lamphelpat (64, contact number 9774670347), MU Canchipur (250, contact numbers 7005609964/9774488732), Integrated Ayush Hospital, CCC Keirao (60, 9362653853) .

Information on CHIC can be had from the Deputy Director of Health, Dr L Somorendro on 9402723243, added the COVID-19 Common Control Room.

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