Dimapur, Oct. 11 (EMN): Nagaland reported three new COVID -19 cases on Tuesday, pushing the number of active cases to five.
Kohima, Mon and Phek reported one case each, taking the state’s COVID tally to 35966.
The cumulative number of recoveries stands at 33666, while the death toll from the disease is at 766.
Out of the five cases, one is asymptomatic and four mild.
In terms of distribution of active cases, Mokokchung has two cases while Dimapur, Kohima and Phek have one case each.
India reports 1957 new cases
India logged 1,957 new coronavirus infections taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 4,46,16,394, while the active cases dipped to 27,374, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Tuesday.
The death toll climbed to 5,28,822 with eight fatalities which includes three deaths reconciled by Kerala, the data updated at 8 am stated.
The active cases comprise 0.06 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate increased to 98.75 per cent, the ministry said.
India’s COVID-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7, 2020, 30 lakh on August 23, 40 lakh on September 5 and 50 lakh on September 16. It went past 60 lakh on September 28, 70 lakh on October 11, crossed 80 lakh on October 29, 90 lakh on November 20 and surpassed the one-crore mark on December 19.
The country crossed the grim milestone of two crore on May 4 and three crore on June 23 last year. It crossed the four-crore mark on January 25 this year.
