Wokha, July 14 (MExN): An emergency meeting of District Task Force, Wokha for COVID-19 was held at DC’s Conference Hall, Wokha on July 13. Deputy Commissioner & Chairman DTF, Wokha, Orenthung Lotha reviewed the COVID-19 situation in the district.
A DIPR report stated that the Chief Medical Officer and Dy CMO, Wokha stated that the district has so far vaccinated 35,560 persons, while 3,856 samples have been collected during the random test. So far the district has conducted random testing 16 times. The district currently has 255 cases and 9 numbers of deaths recorded while the positivity rate stands at 6.61%, recovery rate 83.78% while death rate stands at 3.47%, he stated.
During the meeting, the chairman stated that to bring down the positive cases and prevent the spread of COVID in the district random testing and mass vaccination has to be intensified, where the CMO stated that all the health care centers in the district are activated to carry out the test and vaccination on an aggressive level. He also informed that some persons are in the habit of circulating and spreading unconfirmed/unverified and fake news in many social media platforms, where he said that such act are punishable offence which will invite punishments under relevant sections of Act and warned public to refrain from such kind of activities.
Random testing was also conducted for the DCs staff and other department employees today at DC’s office premise where 52 samples were collected and tested and all turned out to be negative. ADC, Wokha, Lankonsen Tsanglao and SDO (C) Chonpenthung Ezung before the commencement of the testing apprised the staff about the importance of getting vaccine and other COVID appropriate behaviors to be followed.
