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Nagaland Districts
Published on Jul 8, 2020
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Dimapur, July 8 (EMN): Twelve more cases of Covid-19 have been reported in Nagaland on Wednesday, taking the total tally of the state to 656.
This was informed by the minister of Health, S Pangnyu Phom, through a social media update on Wednesday morning.
"Out of 432 samples tested, 12 fresh positive cases of Covid-19 have been confirmed. 10 from Dimapur and 1 each from Kohima, Mon and Mokokchung respectively," the minister tweeted on Wednesday morning.
Update!
— S Pangnyu Phom (@pangnyu) July 8, 2020
Out of 432 samples tested, 12 fresh positive cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed.
9 from Dimapur & 1 each from Kohima, Mon & Mokokchung respectively.
Total State status as of 8: 50 AM, 8th July, 2020.
Positive : 656
Active : 353
Recovered : 303
At the time of writing this report, Health authorities in Nagaland have declared 303 patients as ‘recovered’ and 353 as active cases with no deaths.
It may be mentioned that Nagaland recorded its first Covid-19 positive cases on May 25 when three returnees tested positive for the virus.
The number of positive cases breached the 100-mark as 13 returnees from Chennai tested positive for the virus, taking the state’s tally to 107 on June 6.
Subsequently, the number of positive cases crossed the 300-mark of Covid-19 cases as 50 returnees tested positive for the virus, taking the state's tally to 330 on June 23.
Meanwhile, the number of Covid-19 recovered cases in the state reached the 100-mark on June 16 as 11 more returnees tested negative for Covid-19 in their second tests on Tuesday, taking the recovery tally to 103 in the state.
As of July 8, Peren has the highest cases among the districts with 108 active cases, followed by Mon with 73 active cases. Kohima has 67 active cases; Dimapur has 65 cases; Tuensang has 28 cases; Phek has eight cases, while Mokokchung has three cases and Zunheboto has one case.