Minister for Health & Family Welfare Nagaland, S Pangnyu Phom. (Photo Courtesy: @pangnyu / Twitter)
Morung Express News
Dimapur | June 24
Minister for Health & Family Welfare Nagaland, S Pangnyu Phom today appealed returnees staying at various quarantine centres (QCs) to extend their cooperation to the ‘authority and follow the guidelines strictly issued by the government.’
While concurring with the returnees’ longing for home from these QCs, he said that such cooperation was needed to protect the community from COVID-19.
Taking to Twitter on June 24 in the backdrop of several incidents occurring at QCs, Pangnyu said that in this challenging time, “cooperation & coordination is an important issue.”
“Therefore, I would like to appeal all the returnees in various QCs across the State to kindly extend your cooperation to the authority and follow the guidelines strictly issued by the Govt,” the Minister urged in the tweet.
“I understand that you all are longing for home but please do remember that your cooperation is needed to protect our community from COVID19,” he added.
Total cases increase to 347
Meanwhile, Nagaland reported another 17 fresh COVID-19 cases on Wednesday morning taking the state’s total infections to 347.
With number of recoveries unchanged for third consecutive days at 141, active cases stood at 206 of 10 AM on June 24, bringing down the recovery rate to 40.63% from 42.72% on June 23.
7 districts in Nagaland – Dimapur, Kohima, Peren, Phek, Mon, Zunheboto and Tuensang - have so far reported one or more cases of COVID-19.
As per the data given on Nagaland COVID-19 Dashboard, out of the 347 cases, 240 were males and 107 were females.
Over 93% (or 326 persons) of the cases were among those belonging in the 18-44 years age group. There were 10 cases each in the 0-17 and 45- 64 years age groups. There was a single case in the 65 -74 age bracket.
All cases were reported to be symptomatic.
