82 cases logged in 48 hours
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, August 05 2022:
Altogether 82 persons tested positive for Coronavirus in the last 48 hours to take the cumulative number of positive cases to 1,39,295 including 5018 Central security personnel.
On August 4, Manipur logged 36 new cases including one Central security personnel and two deaths.
The deceased persons were from Imphal West and while both of them had taken the second dose of the vaccine, they both had comorbidities.
The cumulative number of deaths due to the virus is now 2133 .
On August 5, Manipur registered 46 new cases, all from the general population.
The 46 new cases were detected while testing a total of 638 samples to take the daily positivity rate to 7.2 percent.
The positive cases are from Imphal East (9), Imphal West (16), Thoubal (3), Bishnupur (1), Kakching (2), Kangpokpi (1), Ukhrul (6), Pherzawl (1), Chandel (4) and Churachandpur (3).The number of active cases is 297 .
No deaths were reported in the last 24 hours.
On the other hand 152 persons were discharged in the last 24 hours from home isolation (105), RIMS (3), JNIMS (2), SHRI (2) and 'discharged' (40).The recovery rate is 98.26 percent.
Overall 54.08 percent of the eligible population have received their second dose while 62.23 have got their first dose.