New Year begins with fresh Covid case
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, January 02 2023:
Breaking the run of Covid-free status, which continued for 17 days in a row, a new case of Covid-19 was reported on the first day of the New Year as government bulletins reported one positive case from Imphal East district on Sunday, out of 28 samples tested from Saturday afternoon till Sunday afternoon.
However, no new case was reported on Monday on which 14 samples were tested.
Meanwhile, no vaccination activities were carried out on Saturday and Sunday, which leaves the cumulative number of vaccinated people to 16,48,726, out of which 13,38,153 had received the second dose and 2,79,107 taken precautionary doses.
The virus has, so far, claimed 2149 lives including seven CAPF personnel, and infected 1,39,923 individuals including 5,022 CAPF personnel.