Active cases dip, 79 new cases detected
Source: Chronicle News Service

Imphal, July 23 2022: Government bulletins on Saturday reported 79 new positive cases from 12 districts out of 1026 samples tested in the last 24 hours registering 7.70 per cent positivity rate.

For the first time since the 4th wave began, the active cases came down under 600. The 79 fresh cases (64 male & 15 female) are residents of Imphal West (27), Imphal East (22), Churachandpur (8), Thoubal (5), Kangpokpi (5), Tamenglong (3), Bishnupur (2), Kakching (2), Ukhrul (2), Chandel (1), Kamjong (1) and Tengnoupal (1) districts.

Saturday also reported 93 recoveries from home isolation (82) Shija Hospital (7), RIMS (3) and Jivan Hospital (1).Moreover, 34 already discharged cases pending for update were also reported only on Saturday making the total number of discharged cases in the last 24 hours to 127. Meanwhile, number of active cases came down to 596, out of which 433 (72.65 per cent) are in home isolation.

Till date, the pandemic has claimed 2124 lives including seven CAPF personnel and infected 1,38,468 individuals including 5,014 CAPF personnel.

The virus has claimed lives of 196 vaccinated persons of which 62 had received second doses.

There are 12 vacant beds available in JNIMS and 19 in RIMS.

So far, the state has recorded 1223 positive cases and four deaths since the beginning of the fourth wave of the pandemic.

The current month has reported 1198 new positive case and four death cases.

The cumulative positivity rate for the current month fell to 10.60 per cent.

In the last 24 hours, 71 D-type and 1 B-type oxygen cylinders have been made available to different health facilities and 10,778 vaccine doses administered taking the cumulative number of vaccinated population to 16,08,008, out of which 12,79,627 had received the second dose and 1,74,228 had 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 (49331), Imphal East (30769), Thoubal (10224), Churachandpur (11112), Kangpokpi (3155), Tamenglong (3487), Bishnupur (9891), Senapati (2505), Ukhrul (3309), Kakching (6932), Chandel (2749), Noney (1169), Tengnoupal (1206), Jiribam (1114), Kamjong (1047), and Pherzawl (468). Data analysed by this daily shows that the rate of infection remains 44,624 confirmed cases per million population (based on projected population of 31,03,000 as per NCP report) against the national average of 31,160 CPM.

Test rate has improved to 5,24,005 tests per million population against the national average of 6,19,249 TPM.

Case fatality rate stands at 1.53 per cent and the recovery rate rose to 98.04 per cent.

The cumulative positivity rate stands at 8.52 per cent.

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