Doubling rate of COVID-19 cases as of July 24 in Nagaland according to the ‘COVID-19: Weekly Bulletin’ issued by Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme, Department Of Health and Family Welfare, Nagaland on July 25. (Image: IDSP, DoHFW Nagaland)
15 tests per 1000 people against the national 11.7
Morung Express News
Dimapur | July 25
The weekly COVID-19 bulletin released by the state Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP), Department of Health & Family Welfare, on July 25 tipped Nagaland’s recovery rate at 43 percent. It implies that recovery rate fell by 1 percentage point over the past week.
During the week, the state recorded the highest (to date) single-day spike of 90 positive cases on July 23. As per the bulletin, a majority of the cases recorded on July 23 were employees of a “private sector company in quarantine.”
It took 13 days — from May 25 to June 6 – for the state to reach 100 cases, while the current doubling rate is tipped at 15 days.
With 4 death officially recorded (but with a disclaimer), the mortality rate stood at .3 percent against the national 2.3 percent.
As far as testing rate was concerned, Nagaland was faring better than the country average at 15 tests per 1000 people against the latter’s 11.7 tests per 1000. Positivity rate was 3.77 percent against the country’s 8.43 percent.
In the gender-wise distribution of cases, 80 percent of the patients were male, while 99 percent of the cases were asymptomatic. 90.1 percent of the cases fall in the age group of 18-44 years.
In absolute numbers, it said that 10 positive cases have pre-existing/underlying illnesses like cancer, TB and diabetes.
Of the 7139 contacts traced till date, “2,212 contacts have been listed as high risk.” “31 contacts outside the quarantine center have tested positive. They are all listed as contacts of a positive case.”
It added that 29 percent of the cases are from the armed forces.
