• Highest daily spike of 287 cases
• 69.6% new cases from traced contacts
Morung Express News
Dimapur | May 5
The detection of COVID-19 cases in Nagaland continued an alarmingly high trend as the State recorded its highest daily spike of 287 cases on May 5.
As per the Nagaland COVID-19 bulletin issued by the State Health and Family Welfare department, out of 706 samples, 287 returned positive on Wednesday, indicating a test positivity rate of 40.6%.
221 cases were from Dimapur, 59 from Kohima, 2 from Tuensang while Zunheboto, Phek, Peren, Longleng and Kiphire reported one new case each.
Out of the 287 cases, 200 were traced contacts, 57 were returnees/travelers while 27 were security forces/armed personnel and 3 were frontliners.
Total caseload goes past 15K-mark
Barely days after crossing the 14000-mark, Nagaland crossed another grim milestone on Wednesday with the total number of positive cases in the State rising to 15,004.
This is the shortest gap between 1000 COVID-19 cases reported in the State as the overall case trajectory showed that it took just 4 days to reach the 15000-mark, after breaching 14000 cases on May 1.
With 33 recoveries, the total recovered cases as on May 5 was 12,390. Nagaland has 2038 active cases at present.
The total death toll in Nagaland is 108 till date while 10 other deaths have been categorized as not COVID related.
