CCpur is now Covid free
Source: The Sangai Express
CCpur, March 31 2022:
After grappling for more than a year with the COVID-19 pandemic, Churachandpur today emerged coronavirus free as the number of active cases stood at zero.
A solitary case recorded seven days ago, on March 24, 2022 was the last time any new cases have been reported in the district.
Sources in the district Health Department said, Churachandpur has briefly witnessed similar conditions in between the first and second wave.
However, it is the first time that active cases have plunged to zero since the onset of the second wave in April 2021 .
As no new case of infection was reported in the past 7 days and with the recovery of the solitary patient, in home quarantine, during the last 24 hours, there were no Covid cases.
Technically, the district now is Covid free.
The daily tests conducted by the Health Department nevertheless continue with 20-30 tests conducted on an average.
Churachandpur has recorded an overall caseload of 11,068 ever since the onset of COVID-19 in April 2020.With the recovery of the last one patient, the overall recoveries went up to 10,886 .
The death toll remained at 182 .
The drop in active cases to zero is remarkable as it could eventually suggest the culmination of the third and the mildest wave.
The third wave that commenced in January 2022 saw only 828 caseloads while the second wave that started in April 2021 and lasted till December 2021 was the most lethal and recorded a caseload of 8145; a good 73 percent of all cases reported during the entire pandemic.
The first wave that lasted 10 months from May 2020 to March 2021 saw caseloads of 2095.The district Health Department has so far tested 1,21,315 and found 1,10,247 of them to be negative.
The test positivity rate remained zero and the fatality and recovery rates stood at 1.64 per cent and 98.35 per cent respectively.
Churachandpur has so far administered about 1,18,224 first doses and 1,02,479 second doses of Covid vaccines while about 10248 children between 15-17 and 3389 in the age group of 12-14 have also received their first or both the doses of vaccination.