Nagaland COVID-19 Status as of June 18.
Morung Express News
Dimapur | June 18
6 more patients tested negative for COVID-19 in their second test on June 18 bringing down the number of actives cases in Nagaland to 84.
“6 more patients have tested negative of COVID-19 in their second test. 2 from Jalukie & 4 from Dimapur,” updated State’s Health and Family Welfare Minister, S Pangnyu Phom on Twitter Thursday evening.
On June 18, no fresh cases were reported from the state and the total COVID-19 infections stood at 193.
With this, there are now 84 active cases while the rest -109 were reported as ‘recovered’ denoting a recovery rate of 56.47%.
Dimapur still has the highest number of active cases at 35, followed by Kohima and Mon at 21 each. Tuensang, which was free of the active cases till June 16, also reported one fresh case on June 17. Other actives cases include 6 in Peren for a State’s total of 90.
Principal Secretary, Home, Abhijit Sinha informed during his daily briefing on Wednesday that all the positive persons are receiving medical care at the designated COVID-19 Hospitals. “As per the severity of symptoms, all the 90 active cases are asymptomatic,” he added.
According to Nagaland COVID-19 Dashboard, the distribution of the 193 positive cases by age are as follows: 5 cases between 0-17 years;180 cases between 18-44 years; 7 cases between 45-64 years; and1 cases between 65-74 years.
Gender-wise, out of the total cases, 123 (63.73%) are males and while the rest 70 (36.26%) are females.
