ITANAGAR: At least 198 more people, including two security personnel, have
tested positive for
Covid-19 in Arunachal Pradesh, pushing the caseload in the
state to 13,169, a senior health official said on Saturday.
Of the 198
new cases, 72 were reported from the Capital Complex region, Changlang (25), West Siang (21), East Siang (19), Tirap (10) and Lower Dibang Valley (8).
Six cases each were also recorded in Upper Siang, Lower Subansiri and West Kameng, five from Namsai, four from Pakke Kessang, three each from Papum Pare and Lepa Rada, two each from Kamle, East Kameng, Longding and Siang, and one each from Upper Subansiri and Dibang Valley, the official said.
Barring 35, all the new patients are asymptomatic and have been shifted to
Covid care centres, state surveillance officer Dr Lobsang Jampa said.
“Two state police personnel and a healthcare worker from Changlang are among the new patients,” Dr Jampa said. Eleven undertrial prisoners of Central Jail at Jully, near here, were also found to have contracted the disease, he said.
Altogether 182 people have been cured of the disease, taking the total number of recoveries to 10,071, Dr Jampa said, adding that the recovery rate now stands at 76.47 per cent.
Arunachal Pradesh currently has 3,068 active cases, while 30 people have succumbed to the infection so far.
The Capital Complex region, comprising
Itanagar, Naharlagun, Nirjuli and Banderdewa areas, has the highest number of active cases at 1,441, Dr Jampa said.
As many as 2,89,502 samples have been tested for Covid-19 so far, including 2,507 on Friday, he added.