Arunachal COVID toll rises to 35 pushing the State's caseload to 14,391

ITANAGAR: Altogether 147 persons tested positive for COVID-19 in Arunachal Pradesh on Tuesday, pushing the State's caseload to 14,391, while two more patients succumbed to the infection, raising the toll to 35. Arunachal Pradesh currently has 2,174 active cases. The total number of cured COVID-19 patients rose to 12,182, with the recovery rate now at 84.65 per cent, said State Surveillance Officer (SSO) Dr Lobsang Jampa.

Barring 32, all new patients are asymptomatic and have been shifted to COVID Care Centres.

A 35-year-old woman from Sagalee in Papumpare district, who was also suffering from Rheumatic heart disease and Mitral Stenosis, died at the dedicated COVID hospital at Chimpu near here on Monday. A 55-year-old man from Daporijo in Upper Subansiri district died on his way to a COVID hospital following respiratory failure, said the official.

Of the 147 fresh cases, 56 were reported from the Capital Complex region; 17 from West Siang; nine each from East Siang and Lohit; eight from Upper Siang; seven each from Lower Dibang Valley and Namsai; six each from Upper Subansiri and Lepa Rada; five from Papumpare; four each from West Kameng and Tirap; two each from Changlang and Longding; and one each from Kra Daadi, Tawang, Lower Subansiri, Lower Siang, and Siang.

"Among the new patients are three security personnel, including two Army men and a Police constable," said Dr Jampa, adding, "17 undertrial prisoners — 14 from the Central Jail near here and three from a district jail in Lohit — have also contracted the disease."