COVID-19 Manipur: One more died ; number of casualty reached 18
69 persons with no travel history tested positive
Source: IT News
Imphal, August 18 2020:
The number of COVID-19 fatal case has reached 18 today with one more died at JNIMS .
The victim is a 75 years old female and a report from the health department said that she succumbed due to COVID-19 and other co-morbid health condition.
Meanwhile, 69 persons from general population who have no record of travel history has been reported COVID-19 positive today .
4 more returnees were also tested positive adding the figure to 73 today.
Above this 5 personnel of the Aentral Armed Police Force (CAPF) have also been tested positive today.
A statement from the Health department said that of the 73 plus 5 positive cases 15 are tested positive at VRDL JNIMS, 1 at RAT JNIMS , 9 through tTrueNat at RIMS, 1 by RAT at Noney, 36 by Rat at Imphal West, 9 at Dh Bishnupur, 4 by RAT at Imphal East, 1 at Public Hospital and Research institute.
44 of those tested positive in the last 24 hours are from Imphal West, 16 from Imphal East, 9 from Bishnupur , 2 from Noney, 2 from Thoubal.