Record number of 13 deaths, 380 new cases registered
Source: Chronicle News Service

Imphal, May 06 2021: Amid the rising cases of Covid-19, the state on Tursday reported a record number of 13 deaths along with 380 new infections.

So far, the 13 fatalities in a day have become the highest ever single day casualty reported since the pandemic began in the state in late March last year.

With the addition of 380 new cases and 33 recoveries in the last 24 hours, the number of active cases has reached 2991 of which 1960 are in home isolation while the remaining 1031 are undergoing treatment in hospitals and Covid Care Centres.

With active cases reaching almost 3000 and nearly 35 per cent of the patients being hospitalised, the state is facing shortage of beds.

There are reports of several moderate to severe symptomatic patients being forced to stay in Covid Care Centres due to non-availability of beds in hospitals.

In the last seven days, 4298 cases were added to the cumulative tally against 1268 cases reported in the previous week.

Altogether, 5545 cases have been reported so far since the beginning of January this year.

On the other hand, 92 fatalities have also been reported in the current year of which 47 deaths occurred in the last seven days against 19 in the previous week.

According to ofcial reports, the 380 new cases include 362 civilians (192 male & 170 female) and 18 personnel of Central Armed Police Force (CAPF).

Their samples were tested at JNIMS (62), Imphal East (8), Imphal West (29), Maipakpi (5).Mother's Care (1), RD Wing (12), SWISS Clinic (1), CMC (2), Little Clinic (2), Chamber of Commerce (2), Christian Hospital (1), Advanced Hospital (3), Ema Hospital (1), Public Hospital (1), Shija Hospitals (20), Jivan Hospital (12), Babina Diagnostics (95), Escent Diagnostics (54), Toubal (3), Kakching (11), Ukhrul (3), Churachandpur (43), Kangpokpi (3) and Tamenglong (6).The positive cases from among the general population are from Imphal East (116), Imphal West (170), Toubal (5), Bishnupur (4), Kakching (23), Ukhrul (4), Churachandpur (29), Tamenglong (5), Senapati (1), Kangpokpi (4) and Noney (1).All necessary measures like containment and contact tracing are in place.

The 13 fatalities reported on Turs-day include a 55-year-old male from Churachandpur; a 67-year-old male from Kakching; a 63-year-old female & a 46-year-old male from Bishnupur; a 45-year-old male, a 55-year-old male, a 52-year-old female, a 50-year-old male & a 75-year-old male from Imphal West; and a 40-year-old male, a 78-year-old male, an 80-year-old male & a 66-year- old male from Imphal East district.

One each of them died at Bal Bhavan, District Hospital Churachandpur, Jivan Hospital, Raj Medicity; two at Shija Hospitals, three at RIMS and four at JNIMS.

The cumulative number of deaths has reached 447.In the last 24 hours, 33 patients were discharged from home isolation (14), RIMS (8) RD Wing (1), Bal Bhawan (2) and SHRI (8).The cumulative number of positive cases has reached 33,733 (general population - 30,109 and CAPF personnel - 3,624).Number of recovered cases is 30,295 (general population - 26,828 and a 75-year old male 3,467) and number of active cases is 2991 (general population - 2839 and a 75-year old male 152).The recovery rate is 89.80 per cent.

In the last 24 hours, 677 D type Oxygen Cylinders and 516 B-type Oxygen cylinders have been made available to diferent health institutions and health facilities in the state.

State Covid Common Control Room has informed that 2,42,359 individuals have been administered Covid vaccines so far.

Data analysed by this daily shows that the rate of infection remains 10,871 confrmed cases per million population (based on projected population of 31,03,000 as per NCP report) against the national average of 15,937 CPM.

Test rate has improved to 202,338 tests per million population against the national average of 213,289 TPM.

Case fatality rate rose to 1.33 per cent.

In the past 24 hours, only 2358 samples were tested and the single day positivity rate was 16.12 per cent while the cumulative positivity rate has risen to 5.37 per cent.

Singjamei CHIC sets example for other centres CHRONICLE NEWS SERVICE IMPHAL: The Community Home Isolation Centre (CHIC) of Singjamei AC, which was inaugurated at Manipur College on Wednesday, is setting an example for similar facilities in assembly segments with utilisation of nurses and doctors of the constituency by Manipur Legislative Assembly speaker Y Khemchand, who is also the local MLA.

So far, 24 Covid-19 patients with mild symptoms have been admitted to the centre and their vitals are being monitored every 30 minutes by three nurses as per the instruction of doctors.

Speaking to The People's Chronicle in this regard, speaker Y Khemchand informed that a proper system to fend of the Covid-19 pandemic is not yet defned but the government is doing the best it can.

However, the biggest issue at the moment is that Covid patients exhibiting mild symptoms cannot be all admitted to the hospitals and many do not have the luxury to self-isolate in their homes.

As such, CHIC has been set up to address this problem and prevent the spread of the virus, he added.

Informing that he is bearing all expenses for the centre, the speaker recounted that he did not take any monetary aid from the government in opening a quarantine centre during the last wave of the pandemic.

"It is up to government policy whether to extend aid or not, but for me, it is my responsibility to the people", he said.

Regarding the manpower being used in running the centre, Khemchand maintained that the volunteers of Covid Management Committee are always ready.

Additionally, three unemployed nurses of the AC are currently being utilised at the centre and he is paying them remuneration.

On top of this, a well-known doctor has been engaged and medicines are being provided to the patients, he conveyed.

"The centre is being operated like a mini-hospital and the patients are being well cared for.

The government has assured of taking the responsibility if the condition of any of the patients deteriorate, apart from providing necessary materials to the centre.

Tus, a timely report will be provided to the government to prevent any hiccups and any necessary arrangement would be made according to the rules of the government", the speaker said.

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