Aizawl: Despite the number of Covid-19 cases that have only dropped to 249 for the last 24 hours due to the closure of the Lone RT-PCR laboratory at the Zoram medical hospital on Sunday, Mizoram continues to increase the numbers infected daily between 8 NEs.
stated and contributed 37.16% of new cases throughout the region.
The state also has the highest number of Covid-19 cases among the states of the region for the 56th day in a row, while it contributed 69.86% of the number of active cases in the northeast on Monday morning.
Five people died in the past 24 hours, raising the deaths related to Covid-19 to 388, which is 0.34 percent of the total cases infected with 1,12,848.
The recovery rate increased steadily and placed at 90.11% as on Monday night with a total of 1,01,691 people reportedly free from infection.
Meanwhile, State Minister of Health Dr.
R Lalthangliana on Monday announced that “all mask campaigns” were ongoing to be concluded on Wednesday extended to the end of the month.
Lalthangliana said the campaign had brought fruits because the number of newly infected people had declined and mass awareness about the importance of wearing a mask would increase over a long period.
Test Covid-19 in a symptom-based approach, as suggested by the state expert team about Covid-19 management and adopted by WHO and ICMR, will also be implemented soon, he said.
He added that the cocktail of monoclonal antibodies (MAC), which has been very popular for the treatment of Covid-19 patients who have undergone kidney transplants and parents who have comorbidity, must be available for rural people by ensuring the availability of Mac in all district hospitals.