Manipur NHM staff tests negative in retest

Our Correspondent

Imphal, July 28 (EMN): The National Health Mission (NHM) staff engaged with the Covid-19 Common Control Room (CCR) at chief minister’s secretariat in Imphal who had tested positive for Covid-19, was retested through RT-PCR on Monday and found to be negative, according to official sources.

The NHM staff had contact with a Covid-19 positive patient during a visit to Senapati district hospital.

Confirming this, Dr. Khoirom Sasheekumar Mangang, additional director and spokesperson of Health department in a press release on Monday night said, more than 220 people from the chief minister’s secretariat, security staff, officials and staff posted at CCR have been tested and found to be negative.

In the past 24 hours, 51 persons including 34 males and 17 females were confirmed positive at the Viral Research & Diagnosis Laboratories of the RIMS (10) and the JNIMS (22), and the district hospitals of Thoubal (19), the press release said.

All, except 18 from Thoubal, four from Imphal east, one each from Churachandpur and Imphal west, are returnees from other states, it added. They are being shifted to Covid care facilities.

All necessary medical precautionary measures like containment and contact tracing are in place.

In the past 24 hours, 38 persons were discharged from JNIMS (8), Covid care centres of Meitram (15), Ukhrul (2), Senapati (3), Thoubal (3), Kamjong (3), and RD Wing Lamphel (4) after they were found Covid-19 free on RT-PCR test.

The total number of Covid-19 positive cases in Manipur on Monday reached 2,286 with 727 active and 1,559 recovered cases. The recovery rate is 68.19 percent.

Eleven CISF (Central Industrial Security Force) who were found positive are from the designated quarantine centres. In another development, 221 persons and 71 vehicles were detained in the state for violating lockdown norms and fined a sum of INR 55,900 as per law, according to state police department source.