Mother and daughter from Kamjong district test positive
Active COVID-19 cases climb to seven
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, May 19 2020: With a mother-daughter duo who went to Delhi for medical treatment testing positive, the total number of active COVID-19 cases in the State has reached seven.

According to a press release issued by COVID-19 Common Control Room spokesman Dr Khoirom Sasheekumar Mangang, the number of positive cases has reached nine while the number of active cases is seven.

Notably, the State's first two COVID-19 positive persons have already recovered.

A 64 year old woman from Khongjal village, Kamjong district and her 23 year old daughter were tested for COVID-19 at RIMS today and they were found positive.

Thermal Scanning at JNV Loktak

Kamjong district now has three active COVID-19 cases.

As such, they have been put in the COVID care facility of RIMS for necessary treatment.

They were earlier lodged at the quarantine centre opened at IIIT Mantripukhri.

They left Manipur for Delhi in February this year for a surgical operation of the 64 year old woman.

While in Delhi, they stayed in a rented room at Kotla Mubarakpur.

They left Safdarjung for Imphal in a bus at around 2 am of May 14 .

They reached Imphal on May 16 .

Even though their samples have tested positive for COVID-19, both the mother and the daughter are asymptomatic.

20 people who travelled together with the mother-daughter duo in the same bus have been identified and necessary steps have also been taken up.

Moreover, the State IDSP has informed the Delhi IDSP to take up necessary measures with regard to the bus driver and assistants who brought the mother-daughter duo and others to Imphal, conveyed a source.

Notably, two individuals - a 75 years old woman and her 48 years old son, who went to Mumbai for medical treatment and returned by a hired bus tested positive for COVID-19 on May 16 as a 22 year old girl from Churachandpur who returned from Chennai by train arranged by the State Government tested positive on the same day.

The mother-son duo who tested positive on May 16 were among the 36 people who reached Imphal from Mumbai in a hired bus and ambulance on May 13.They are the third and fourth COVID-19 active cases in the State while the girl from Churachandpur is the fifth active case.

The first active case after the COVID-19 positive girl from Thangmeiband and the man from Lilong had recovered is the 31 year old man from Khurai Heikru Makhong who was tested positive after his return from Mumbai.

The second active case is a nurse from Kamjong district who tested positive after her return from Kolkata.

As such, the mother-daughter duo from Kamjong is the sixth and seventh COVID-19 positive case in the State.

Apart from the screening done at Mao and Jiribam, all the people who return to the State from outside would be screened at the district screening centres before sending them to quarantine centres as per an office memorandum issued by the Principal Secretary (Health) .

The office memorandum said that DCs should coordinate with CMOs and see that sample collection teams do their work properly.

Quarantined people whose samples have tested negative for COVID-19 should be sent away from quarantine centres for home quarantine.

Priority should be given to persons who show symptoms and/or belong to high risk groups.

CMOs should ensure that they are taken to isolation wards urgently.

The office memorandum said that samples collected from Imphal East, Churachandpur, Pherzawl, Senapati, Kangpokpi, Bishnupur, Chandel and Tengnoupal districts for COVID-19 test should be sent to JNIMS.

Samples collected for COVID-19 test from Imphal West, Ukhrul, Kamjong, Jiribam, Tamenglong, Noney, Thoubal and Kakching districts should be sent to RIMS.

Meanwhile, the Health Department has instructed COVID-19 nodal officers to see that all the people who are currently put in quarantine centres after their return to the State from different parts of the country are compulsorily tested for COVID-19 on a roster system.