Doubling rate of COVID-19 cases in Nagaland as of August 21 according to ‘COVID-19: Weekly Bulletin’ issued by Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme, Department of Health and Family Welfare, Nagaland. (Morung Photo via IDSP, DoHFW Nagaland Handout)
Test rate rises to 26 per 1000
Morung Express News
Dimpaur | August 22
The doubling time of COVID-19 cases remained unchanged at 14 days as it was the week before, as per the weekly COVID-19 analysis released by the Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme, Department of Health and Family Welfare, Nagaland on August 22.
Despite this, the state reported only 297 cases during the past week, less than half of the 667 cases reported in the second week of August. The first COVID-19 case in Nagaland was reported on May 25.
It added, “The state has tested 5,126 samples in the past week with a positivity rate of 5.7 %. Sample positivity in the week before was 11.8%.”
In total, the state has tested 54,660 samples so far (RT PCR-32588, TrueNat- 21557, Antigen Test- 515), excluding an additional 2735 retest of positive cases.
The state maintained a slightly better figure than the country average in terms of testing of samples. “Tests conducted per thousand is slightly higher than the national average at 26 per thousand population,” it said, while adding that the positivity rate was 6.4 percent against the national 8.6 percent.
As on August 21, bed occupancy rate at the COVID-19 Hospitals stood at 18 percent of the total bed availability, while 47 percent of the total beds at the COVID Care centres were occupied. It added that military, paramilitary and non-COVID centres were not factored in this list.
Around 6 percent of the total active cases were in home isolation. Gender-wise, 82 percent of the total confirmed cases were male, it said, while adding, “This includes a large percentage from the military.”
The armed forces continued to lead in terms of case contribution at 43 percent of the state’s total of 3635 cases. Civilian returnees’ contribution reduced to 33 percent from 35 percent, while positive cases among front-line workers increased to 7 percent from 6 percent during the week. Cases detected through contact tracing increased to 17 percent from 13 percent.
