Newmai News Network
Imphal | May 19
The number of COVID-19 cases in Manipur increased to nine on Tuesday with seven active cases and two recoveries.
A mother (64 years) and her daughter (23 years) who recently returned from Delhi by road on a hired bus along with other passengers were tested at VRDL at RIMS in Imphal and found positive for the virus, a press release of the COVID-19 Common Control Room stated on Tuesday.
The two were lodging at a government quarantine centre opened at IIIT Complex in Imphal’s Mantripukhri. They have been admitted at the COVID care facility of RIMS hospital immediately after the results were known.
With the two new cases, the number of COVID-19 cases in Manipur increased to nine. Two have recovered and seven cases are active and being treated in hospitals in Imphal, the press release further stated.
Sources said that the mother and daughters hail from Phungyar area of Kamjong district and were in Delhi for an eye operation of the mother at AIIMs hospital.
They left Delhi’s Safdarjung for Imphal on May 14 and entered Manipur through Mao Gate on May 16 along NH-2 and reached Imphal in the evening of the same day. Since then, they were in the institutional quarantine Centre at IIIT Mantripukhri.
Both the mother and the daughter are asymptomatic as of now. All the co-passengers of the bus have been identified. IIIT Complex has also been declared as containment zone as per COVID-19 protocol, the source said.
