Manipur: First COVID death reported after 4 months

Our Correspondent

Imphal, July 18 (EMN): Manipur reported a COVID-19 death after a gap of almost four months. The state COVID-19 deaths committee reported the death of a 75-year-old man from Imphal West district who died on July15, officials said.

“He was not vaccinated and had co-morbid conditions,” the state COVID-19 common control room, in a press release, said. “The cumulative number of deaths is 2121.”

Manipur last reported two COVID deaths on March 17 this year in Manipur’s Imphal West and Thoubal districts.

Meanwhile, the Northeastern state continues to witness a steady rise of new infections since the past few days as 70 people tested positive for the virus in the last 24 hours and registered a single-day positivity rate of 12 per cent.

With this figure, the number of active cases has increased to 492. Of them 364 are in home isolation. Among the districts, Imphal West remained one of the most vulnerable districts as the maximum number of fresh COVID infections has been reported from the district since the past few days. Meanwhile, 27 persons including 22 from home isolation were discharged during the day.

According to the COVID-19 Common Control Room, the number of recovered cases in Manipur as on Sunday is 1,35,330. On July 17, the state had a recovery rate of 98.11 per cent. The overall caseload in Manipur is 1,37,943.

As per the latest update of the Health department on vaccination, 30,10,810 doses including first dose of 16,03,129 second dose of 12,72,428 and precautionary dose of 1,35,253, have been administered in Manipur.

The first COVID-19 positive case in Manipur was reported on March 24,2020 while the first death case due to the pandemic was reported on July 29 the same year.