Health & Family Welfare (H&FW) department Saturday said that the Nagaland has entered stage 2 of local transmission, while recovery rate was 43% as against India’s 60%.
The department, in its weekly report prepared by Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme, explained that by ‘local transmission’, it meant that there were positive cases apart from people who had travelled from outside, but all cases linked epidemiologically/the source of infection is established.
It went on to state that there are four stages of transmission for COVID-19: Stage I– where all cases are imported or reported in travellers from outside; Stage 2– local transmission; Stage 3– community transmission, where the source of infection is not known and Stage 4– The disease has become endemic to the region.
H&FW said the state recorded the highest single-day spike of 90 cases on July 23, with maximum cases from employees of a private sector company in quarantine. It took 13 days for the state to reach 100 cases from May 25 to June 6 and the current doubling rate was around 15 days, the department stated.
H&FW further claimed that tests per thousand in the state was 15, higher than the country’s testing rate of 11.77. Further, the department said that the state’s positivity rate was at 3.77 %, which was lower than the country’s rate of 8.43 %.