Nagaland on Saturday registered 35 new cases of COVID-19, taking the state's tally to 5419, informed state health minister S Pangnyu Phom through his twitter handle.
He said that the new cases have been detected out of the 526 tests.
"Update! Out of 526 results received 35 +ve cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed," health minister Phom tweeted.
The health minister informed that of the new cases, 23 have been detected in Dimapur district, 10 in Kohima district and 2 other cases have been reported from Zunheboto district.
The tweet further reads as, "Also, State reports 40 recoveries of COVID-19 patients."
Phom further informed that while 28 more patients have recovered from Kohima, 10 have recovered from Dimapur and 2 patients have recovered from Tuensang.
The deadly disease has claimed the lives of 10 patients so far while the deaths of five other positive patients are not COVID-19 related.
