Arunachal Pradesh reports 198 new corona patients

ITANAGAR: At least 198 more people tested positive for COVID-19 in Arunachal Pradesh, raising the State's caseload to 8,869 on Sunday. Barring 25, all new patients are asymptomatic and have been shifted to Covid care centres, State Surveillance Officer (SSO) Dr Lobsang Jampa.

Arunachal Pradesh currently has 2,458 active COVID-19 cases. Altogether 14 have succumbed to the infection.

Altogether 167 people were discharged from various hospitals in the State on Saturday, which pushed the total number of recoveries to 6,397. The recovery rate stands at 72.12 per cent.

Of the 198 fresh cases, 87 were reported from the Capital Complex region, followed by 21 in East Siang; 14 in Changlang; 12 from Tawang; 10 each from Kurung Kumey and West Kameng; seven each from Upper Subansiri, West Siang and Papumpare; five each in Longding and Lower Subansiri; four in Lower Siang; three in Tirap; two in Upper Siang; and one each in East Kameng, Lower Dibang Valley, Namsai and Kamle.

"Among the new patients are 15 security personnel — 10 Army men, four Assam Rifles jawans and a State Police constable — besides 10 personnel of the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) and two Healthcare workers," he said. The Capital Complex region — comprising the areas of Itanagar, Naharlagun, Nirjuli and Banderdewa — has registered the maximum number of active cases at 1,324, followed by Papumpare at 150, West Siang at 128 and Changlang at 122. As many as 2,38,223 samples have been tested for the infection in the State, including, 2,244 on Saturday.

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