New cases lowest after two months
Source: Chronicle News Service

Imphal, August 27 2022: The state on Saturday reported only two new positive cases of Covid-19 from one district out of 341 samples tested in the last 24 hours, thus recording a positivity rate of 0.2 per cent.

This is the lowest since June 29, which re ported six cases while the previous day reported two cases.

The two fresh cases (male) are residents of Imphal West district.

Saturday also reported five recoveries from home isolation.

Number of active cases came down to 83, out of which 49 are in home isolation.

No death case was reported on Saturday.

The pandemic has so far claimed 2146 lives including seven CAPF personnel and infected 1,39,673 individuals including 5,020 CAPF personnel.

There are 30 vacant beds available in JNIMS and 57 in RIMS.

In the last 24 hours, 134 D-type and 24 B-type oxygen cylinders have been made available to different health facilities and 2834 vaccine doses administered on Friday which took the cumulative number of vaccinated population to 16,27,883, out of which 13,01,663 had received the second dose and 2,40,239 had taken precautionary doses.

As per data maintained by The People's Chronicle based on IDSP and CCR reports, number of total cases in different districts are Imphal West (49766), Imphal East (32015), Thoubal (10288), Churachandpur (11261), Kangpokpi (3182), Tamenglong (3496), Bishnupur (9968), Senapati (2545), Ukhrul (3362), Kakching (6971), Chandel (2789), Noney (1173), Tengnoupal (1210), Jiribam (1118), Kamjong (1053) and Pherzawl (476) .

Fatality counts in different districts are Imphal West (711), Imphal East (517), Thoubal (192), Churachandpur (169), Kangpokpi (70), Tamenglong (17), Bishnupur (206), Senapati (13), Ukhrul (51), Kakching (124), Chandel (43), Noney (5), Tengnoupal (16), Jiribam (7), Kamjong (5) and Pherzawl (0) .

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