Representative Image: Frontline medical personnel on COVID-19 duty in Nagaland. The witnessed another big surge in daily COVID-19 cases with 50 new infections from the virus on July 25. (Morung File Photo)
Four deaths as of July 25 but investigation on to establish their link with COVID-19, informs State’s H&FW Minister
Morung Express News
Dimapur | July 25
Nagaland witnessed another big surge in daily COVID-19 cases on Saturday with 50 new infections from the virus.
“50 new cases of COVID-19 have been detected out of 344 test results received,” Health and Family Welfare Minister, S Pangnyu Phom updated on Twitter in the evening.
The new cases include 20 in Mon, 19 in Dimapur, 7 in Kohima and 4 in Mokokchung, the Minister added.
With this, the total case status as of 6:26 PM, July 25 stood at: Postivie-1289, Active – 744, and Recovered: 541.
Meanwhile, Pangnyu further informed that the State has “reported 4 deaths” as of July 25.
The Minister, however, stressed that “investigation is on and subject to further verification to establish the link with COVID-19 as co-morbid conditions were present,” without giving further details.
The Nagaland COVID-19 Dashboard also put the number of deaths at 4, with a disclaimer: “Cause of Death under investigation.”
The Morung Express, earlier during the day, had reported that the samples of an elderly patient, who died at the COVID-19 Hospital on July 24, and the woman from Assam, who was found dead at a paid quarantine centre on July 22, have been confirmed COVID-19 positive.
Their confirmatory RT-PCR test results arrived on Saturday.
The third death, in all probability, pertians to bizarre case of a patient in CHC Medziphema, who was admitted on July 19 but passed away on July 21.
While TrueNat screening gave a negative result, a confirmatory RT-PCR test result of a deceased person returned positive on July 24.
Details regarding the fourth death were yet to be determined death till the filing of this report.
