OUR CORRESPONDENT
ITANAGAR: Arunachal Pradesh has reported the highest single-day spike of COVID-19 cases in the second wave of the pandemic, with 110 more people, including three army men, tested positive for the infection, a senior health official said here on Friday.
The total caseload in the northeastern state rose to 17,296, the official said.
The death toll remained unchanged at 56 with no fresh casualty reported, State Surveillance Officer Dr Lobsang Jampa said.
Of the fresh cases, 90 were detected through rapid antigen tests while, 11 through TrueNAT and 9 through RT-PCR methods.
Among the new patients, 24 are symptomatic, while 86 are without symptoms, the official said.
Fourty two new cases were reported from the Capital Complex Region, 19 from West Kameng, 14 from Lower Dibang Valley, nine from East Siang and seven each from Namsai and Lower Subansiri district respectively.
Four new cases were also reported from Changlang, two each from Lohit and Tawang and one each from Upper Subansiri, West Siang, Papumpare and Lower Siang, the SSO said.
Seven employees of Border Roads Organisation and two health care workers are among the fresh cases, Dr Jampa said.
The number of active patients in the state increased to 380.
Nine more persons recuperated from the disease on Thursday taking the total recoveries in the land-locked state to 16,860, Dr Jampa said.
The recovery rate stood at 97.47 per cent and the positivity rate at 2.20 per cent.
The Capital Complex Region — comprising Itanagar, Naharlagun, Nirjuli and Banderdewa areas, has the highest number of active cases at 147, followed by Lower Dibang Valley district at 76, West Kameng at 46, East Siang (29) and Namsai at 15.
Papumpare and Lower Subansiri districts have 13 active cases each, Lohit and Changlang at eight each, Tirap and Tawang at 6 each, Leparada (5), East Kameng and West Siang have two cases each while, Upper Siang, Lower Siang, Upper Subansiri and Pakke Kessang districts reported one active case each, the official said.
As many as 4,28,202 samples have been tested so far, including 2,741 on Thursday, Dr Jampa said.
According to State Immunization Officer Dr Dimong Padung, a total of 1,93,180 people were inoculated in the state so far since the vaccination drive began in January this year.
The State government has made it mandatory for all entering the state to go through rapid antigen test in the check gates, in case they do not have a valid certificate of a recent test or a certificate mentioning that they have got both the doses of the Covid vaccine.