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Many cases undetected and underreported<\/strong><\/p>\n State Health & Family Welfare (H&FW) department has expressed grave concern that “there is sufficient evidence of the possibility of a third wave anytime”, stating that many cases remain “undetected and underreported”.<\/p>\n In its weekly bulletin, the health department pointed out that the weekly sample positivity rate (WSPR) of the State continued to increase during the last two weeks (from 2.1% to 2.9% and 3.2%). <\/p>\n The department said that Tuensang, which reported WSPR of 1.6% and Longleng at 0% between October 9-15, have reported a weekly positivity rate of more than 10%. <\/p>\n The WSPR (October 16-22) of Tuensang was at 10.5% while Longleng was at 11%. Wokha also reported a weekly positivity rate of 7.4%, it added. <\/p>\n There has also been a slight increase in Covid-19 positive cases as compared to the previous week. 142 new cases and four deaths were reported from the week with a weekly sample positivity rate of 3.2%.<\/p>\n There were also 32 new Covid-19 hospital admissions in the week with 19 admissions in Tuensang alone, the department said. <\/p>\n An average of 40 new COVID-19 hospital admissions and 6 COVID-19 deaths per week continue to be reported in the last 5 weeks, it said.<\/p>\n Over 11.70 lakh doses of Covid-19 vaccines have been administered across the state, with Dimapur, Kohima, Longleng and Mokokchung having the highest vaccination coverage.<\/p>\n Further, the health department also issued safety guidelines, highly recommended to avoid any super spreader events or a third wave:<\/p>\n Masks should be compulsorily worn by everyone irrespective of vaccination status in any gathering or event. Event organizers should enforce the same.<\/p>\n There should be maximum effort to minimize the size of any social, religious, or official gathering to enforce physical distancing.<\/p>\n Events should be planned outdoors to the extent possible. Adequate natural ventilation should be in place for any unavoidable indoor events\/ gatherings (Open doors and windows).<\/p>\n Hand washing points and hand sanitizers should be placed in strategic locations.<\/p>\n COVID-19 vaccination of the eligible population is the way out of this pandemic and should be highly encouraged in all setting.<\/p>\n State logs 18 fresh cases, 1 Covid death<\/strong><\/p>\n Nagaland on Saturday recorded 18 fresh Covid-19 positive cases while one more patient succumbed to the virus.<\/p>\n Of the fresh cases, seven each were reported in Dimapur and Kohima and four in Phek, taking the total caseload to 31707.<\/p>\n Further, one more patient succumbed to the virus in Dimapur, pushing the death toll to 679 (including 15 non-Covid deaths).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Threat of potential 3rd wave looms: H&FW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[679],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-nagaland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}