Imphal — Manipur reported a new COVID-19 positive case after a gap of almost three months, the state officials said on Saturday.
Spokesperson of Health department, Dr. Khoirom Sasheekumar Mangang, in a press note on Saturday, said that a first year PG student of JNIMS (Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Medical Sciences) has been diagnosed as COVID-19 positive on April 1after a long gap since January 3, 2023. He has had two doses of COVID vaccine. Due containment measures have been taken up, he said.
The new positive case was detected when 17 samples collected from five districts of the state were sent for testing, taking the state’s total infection tally to 1,39,925.
The total number of recovered COVID-19 cases in Manipur is 1,37,775. The state’s recovery rate stands at 98.46%, the government official said.
It may be mentioned that the first COVID-19 positive case in Manipur was reported on March 24, 2020 while the first death case due to the pandemic was reported on July 29 the same year.