COVID-19: Another 50 fresh cases take Nagaland's tally to 1339

Nagaland COVID status as of 12:52 PM on July 26

Nagaland COVID status as of 12:52 PM on July 26

Morung Express News
Dimapur | July 26 

Nagaland saw another big daily spike in COVID-19 cases on Sunday with detection of 50 new cases. 

“50 new cases of COVID-19 have been detected out of 328 test results received,” State Health and Family Welfare Minister, S Pangnyu Phom updated on Twitter.

The new cases included 28 from Kohima, 13 from Mon and 9 in Dimapur, he added. 

With this, the Nagaland COVID status as of 12:52 PM on July 26 stood at: Positive - 1339; Active – 794; Recovered – 541.

Meanwhile, State Health authorities including Pangnyu, on Saturday informed that the State has “reported 4 deaths” as of July 25. 

However, the Minister stressed that “investigation is on and subject to further verification to establish the link with COVID-19 as co-morbid conditions were present.” 

The Nagaland COVID-19 Dashboard also put the number of deaths at 4, with a disclaimer that the “Cause of Death under investigation.

”The State Nodal Officer for Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP) also stressed also reiterated that the actual cause of the 4 reported fatalities were “All subject to confirmation through investigation.”