Arunachal Pradesh Registers 42 New Cases of COVID-19

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Forty-two more people, including three Army personnel, tested positive for COVID-19 in Arunachal Pradesh on Friday, taking the tally to 991, the Health Department said.

Of the new cases, 33 were from the Capital Complex, followed by four in Namsai district, three from West Siang and one each from Lower Dibang Valley and Papum Pare, State Surveillance Officer L Jampa said.

There are 654 active cases of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), while 334 people have recovered from the disease and three died of the infection so far in the state.

"The recovery rate in the state stands at 35 percent," Jampa said, adding that 48,880 samples had been tested so far.

The three fresh patients from West Siang are Army personnel, who had come to the district from Guwahati and were in a quarantine centre. They have been shifted to the Army COVID care centre at Likabali, Jampa said.

The 33 new cases in the Capital Complex, comprising Itanagar, Naharlagun, Nirjuli and Banderdewa areas, were detected from various parts of the region through antigen tests, while the new patients from Namsai are returnees, the official said.

The patient from Papum Pare district is a local, while the one from Lower Dibang Valley had returned to the state recently and was in a quarantine centre, Jampa said.

"All, barring five, were asymptomatic and shifted to COVID care centres," he said.

Twenty patients — 15 from the Capital Complex region, three from Changlang and one each from Tirap and Upper Subansiri districts — were discharged from hospitals on Thursday, he said.

The Capital Complex region has recorded the highest 396 COVID-19 cases, followed by Namsai (42), East Siang (39), Papum Pare (27), and Lower Subansiri (21).

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