Assam’s coronavirus tally touches 1,100-mark with 43 new cases

Manipur, Tripura register fresh cases

 

Guwahati/Agartala/ Imphal May 30 (PTI): Assam’s COVID-19 tally touched the 1,100-mark with 43 more people testing positive on Saturday, the state’s Health and Family Welfare Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said.


The state at present has 968 active cases, he said.


Meanwhile, seventeen more people tested positive for COVID-19 in Tripura on Saturday, taking the total number of cases in the state to 271, Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb said.


Of the 17 new patients, two had returned from Bangladesh and 15 from Maharashtra, he said.


In Manipur, three more persons tested positive for COVID-19, taking the total number of cases in the state to 62, officials said on Saturday.


A 44-year-old woman in Churachandpur district and a 34-year-old man in Chandel district staying in quarantine centre as they had returned from Chennai and Mumbai recently, tested positive for coronavirus on Satruday, the COVID-19 Common Control Room said in a statement.


The condition of both as of now was stable and they have been shifted to JNIMS, Imphal.
 



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