Arunachal Pradesh COVID positive cases mount to 16,603

ITANAGAR: At least 29 more people, including four security personnel and a health worker, tested positive for COVID-19 in Arunachal Pradesh, pushing the tally in the northeastern state to 16,603, a health department official said on Friday.

Of the fresh cases, 11 were reported from Tawang, four each from the Capital Complex region and East Siang and three from Lohit, State Surveillance Officer (SSO) Dr Lobsang Jampa said.

Two each new cases were also recorded in Changlang, Lower Siang and Tirap, while one case was also detected in Lepa Rada, the official said.

Three Indo Tibetan Borer Police (ITBP) personnel and one Assam Rifles jawan are among the fresh cases, while a health care worker also contracted the disease, Dr Jampa said. Twenty seven fresh infections were detected through rapid antigen tests, while two were found through RT-PCR method, the SSO said.

Barring four, all the new patients were asymptomatic, he said.

Twelve people were cured of the disease on Thursday, taking the total number of recoveries in the state to 16,290. The recovery rate among coronavirus patients in the state currently stands at 98.11 per cent.

Arunachal Pradesh now has 258 active cases while 55 patients succumbed to the infection so far, the official said. The State's positivity rate now stands at 1.89 per cent while the fatality ratio currently stands at 0.33 per cent.

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