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Eastern Mirror Desk
Dimapur, June 10 (EMN): A total of 12 patients tested negative for Covid-19 in their second tests, taking the total number of recovered to 22 so far in Nagaland, according to official update on June 10.
The minister of Health and Family Welfare, S Pangnyu Phom, updated Nagaland's Covid-19 status at 2:45 pm on Wednesday. He informed that the total number of coronavirus cases in the state stood at 128 with 106 active cases and no death so far.
Phom had updated earlier in the day that one out of 273 samples tested in the last 24 hours turned out positive from Kohima quarantine centre, taking the total number of cases from 127 on Tuesday to 128.
Nagaland Health authorities had declared eight patients as recovered on June 6, before two more were tested negative for the deadly virus on June 9.
It may be mentioned that Nagaland recorded first Covid-19 case on June 25 after three returnees from Chennai were tested positive for the virus. Within two weeks, the number of positive cases breached 100-mark as 13 suspected samples returned positive on June 6, taking the state’s tally to 107.