{"id":216327,"date":"2020-07-02T13:14:19","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T13:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2020\/07\/02\/with-34-fresh-cases-state-covid-tally-now-535\/"},"modified":"2020-07-02T13:14:19","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T13:14:19","slug":"with-34-fresh-cases-state-covid-tally-now-535","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2020\/07\/02\/with-34-fresh-cases-state-covid-tally-now-535\/","title":{"rendered":"With 34 fresh cases, State COVID tally now 535"},"content":{"rendered":"

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338 active cases & 197 recovered<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Nagaland registered 34 new COVID-19 positive cases on Thursday while 15 more patients recovered from the virus.<\/p>\n

With this the state’s total tally has risen to 535 cases– 338 active cases and 197 recovered.<\/p>\n

In a tweet, Health minister S. Pangnyu Phom informed that the 34 cases were among the 226 samples that were tested. He said 32 were from Peren quarantine centre, 1 each from Dimapur and Kohima quarantine centres.<\/p>\n

All the positive persons have been shifted to the designated COVID-19 hospitals for medical care. As per the severity of symptoms, all the 338 active cases were asymptomatic, principal secretary Home, Abhijit Sinha informed in his daily briefing.<\/p>\n

Further, among the 15 patients that recovered, 12 were from Kohima, 2 from Dimapur and 1 from Peren.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the recovery rate in the state plummeted to 36.82%.<\/p>\n

BSL-2 lab operational<\/strong><\/p>\n

The newly inaugurated Bio Safety Level-2 (BSL-2) laboratory at CIHSR, Dimapur began testing COVID-19 suspected samples from July 1. The lab received the first batch of 178 samples on July 1.<\/p>\n

Sources informed that the lab has the capacity to test 90 samples in 2 hours.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, till July 2, a total of 12,570 samples had been tested and results of 11,854 samples were received. Of the 12,570 samples, 8251 were received at the BSL-3 lab (Naga Hospital Authority Kohima) and BSL-2 lab (Christian Institute Of Health Sciences & Research, Dimapur), out of which 8133 were tested and 423 samples tested positive for COVID, principal secretary Home, Abhijit Sinha informed. <\/p>\n

In addition, a total of 6240 samples were also tested by TrueNat, out of which 124 samples tested positive and sent for confirmation by RT-PCR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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