Arunachal Pradesh's COVID-19 tally crossed the 1,000-mark on Saturday as 65 more people, including 33 security personnel, tested positive for the disease, a Health Department official said.
With the fresh infections, the total number of cases rose to 1,056, State Surveillance Officer Dr L Jampa said. Of the new cases, 30 were reported from Papum Pare district, five from Tirap, three from Lohit, two from Lower Dibang Valley and one each from Namsai and West Kameng and 23 from the Capital Complex region, he said.
Of the five fresh patients in Tirap, two are state police personnel, he said, adding that a healthcare worker, an employee of the Water Resources Department and a returnee from Assam also tested positive for the disease in the district. The three infected people in Lohit district are staffers of the Border Road Task Force, (BRTF). They had recently come from Uttar Pradesh and were in a quarantine centre, Jampa said.
The state surveillance officer said the two patients from Roing in Lower Dibang Valley district are returnees from Assam, while the person from West Kameng is a staffer of the Army, who recently came from Andhra Pradesh. The Namsai patient had also returned from Assam, he said.
Fifty-eight patients – 45 from the Capital Complex region, 10 from Changlang district, two from Lower Subansiri and one from Namsai were discharged from hospitals on Friday, the official said. The state now has 661 active cases, while 392 people have recovered from the disease and three died of the infection.
