Arunachal Pradesh COVID-19 tally reaches 27, active 26

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ITANAGAR: Four more fresh cases of COVID-19 were reported in Arunachal Pradesh on Tuesday after four returnees to the State tested positive of the virus infection, a senior government official said. All the four new cases are reported in the State capital here, he said.

Earlier in the day another positive case, a 36-year-old woman was reported positive for novel coronavirus from Lohit district. With this the total number of active cases in the north east state rose to 26.

"Tracking the travel history of the four new cases in the State capital is going on. We are yet to know from where they came and on which date they arrived in the state," Health secretary P Parthiban informed.

Taking to tweeter Chief Minister Pema Khandu said, "As on 2nd June, 4.40 PM, 5 new positive asymptomatic cases have been reported; Itanagar-4 and Lohit-1. All are in quarantine centre being shifted to COVID Care Centre."

A 36-year-old woman who had returned to Arunachal Pradesh from Delhi tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday in Lohit district, where the first positive case was detected on April 1.

The woman, wife of an Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) officer, was in an institutional quarantine centre after arriving from Delhi in a special train with her husband and child on May 24, District Medical officer (DMO) of Lohit Dr S Chai Pul said.

Her swab sample was collected on May 28 and sent to the Regional Medical Research Centre (RMRC) at Dibrugarh in Assam,

"The test results of her husband and child are negative. They were in an institutional quarantine facility of the ITBP. The patient has been shifted to a COVID care centre of the paramilitary force after her swab sample tested positive for Covid-19," the DMO said. In the highest single-day spike of novel coronavirus cases in the state, 18 people had tested positive for the infection on Monday. All the active cases in Arunachal Pradesh are returnees from other states after the Union Home Ministry allowed movement of stranded people. The State's first patient has recovered and was discharged from a hospital on April 16.