Nagaland NewsState logs 47 fresh Covid cases, 1 death

State logs 47 fresh Covid cases, 1 death

Nagaland on Tuesday recorded 47 fresh Covid-19 positive cases and one more patient succumbed to the virus.

Dimapur reported 23 fresh cases, Kohima-16, four in Phek, three in Wokha and one in Longleng, taking the total caseload to 30435.

Further, one more patient succumbed to the virus in Dimapur, pushing the death toll to 632 (including 14 non-Covid deaths).

PTI: India logged 31,222 fresh cases of coronavirus infection taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to  3,30,58,843, while the active cases were recorded below four lakh, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Tuesday.

The death toll has climbed to 4,41,042 with 290 fresh fatalities, according to the data updated at 8 am.

The case fatality rate was recorded at 1.33 per cent. 

The active cases have declined to 3,92,864 comprising 1.19 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded at 97.48 per cent, the ministry said.

A decrease of 12,010 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours.

As many as 15,26,056 tests were conducted on Monday taking the total cumulative tests conducted so far for detection of COVID-19 in the country to 53,31,89,348.

The daily positivity rate was recorded as 2.05 per cent. It has been less than three per cent for last eight days while the weekly positivity rate was recorded at 2.56 per cent. It has been below three per cent for the last 74 days, the ministry said.

The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 3,22,24,937.

With more than 1.13 crore vaccine doses administered in the last 24 hours, the cumulative doses administered in the country so far under the nationwide vaccination drive has reached 69.90 crore according to the ministry.

 

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