Aizawl: With 12 positive ziona master testing, Covid has infiltrated the “biggest family of Mizoram”.
Ziona, Spiritual Leader Pawl Chana (cult) and was known by the world as the world’s largest family patriarch with 39 wives and hordes of children, grandchildren and grandchildren, died on June 13, at the age of 76.
Ziona survived by 39 wives and almost 200 Senior Children and Cucu-grandchildren of Mizoram Health officially said about 2,224 residents of Chhuanthar Tlangnuam Village, who were followers of the late Ziona, 1,255 people’s samples were tested until 5 pm on Friday.
Of the 1,255 samples, 80 turned out to be positive, 12 of them direct family members Ziona.
A member of Sect Chana told Ti that around 200 people, consisting of Ziona’s widow, his children, grandchildren, grandchildren and his son and grandchildren who last occupied Ziona’s residence, called “Chhuanthar Run” , Dr.
Pachi LalmalSawma, Nodal State Officer from the Integrated Disease Supervision Program (IDSP), said there was a call on Friday for more tests after 163 people in the community, who considered themselves as “Chhuanthar Kohhran” or a new generation tested positive for Covid -19 for the past week.
Overall 243 community members are now infected, said health officials.
One of Ziona’s son said until 5 pm, at least 12 members of “Chhuanthar Run” were found positively, including the children of Nuntarliana, Ziona’s oldest son of his first wife.
Nunparliana (61) has two wives and around 15 children and is considered a large family head, if not all sects, as a new leader after Ziona’s death has not yet appeared until now.
Meanwhile, bulk tests continue for the fourth day, especially within the Aizawl Municipal Corporation (AMC) area where at least 60 percent of the Covid-19 fresh cases are detected every day.
Sect members who lived in Chhuanthar Tlangnuam village were very close, bound by religious beliefs and blood relations and were very vulnerable to the pandemic Covid-19 which went berserk, said the previous senior doctor.
The first three people included in this sect were found positively on July 15, requiring more tests that produced 163 positive Covid-19 to Thursday.
According to data available with IDSP, 399 new cases in the state were detected in the first two days of mass testing, with the numbers have not arrived for Thursday and Friday.
The total number of people infected with Covid-19 in Mizoram (the results of the bulk test not included) rose to 30,492 on Friday with 7,559 active cases (24.79 percent of the total infected person) as a national figure of 1.3 percent.
While 22,802 people have been cured in the state, the recovery rate is still low at 74.78 percent due to the national average of 97.36 percent.
With the death of a 37-year-old man belonging to the Border Village of Mizoram-Manipur Vaitin, the total victims of Covid-19 in the country rose to 131 (0.43 percent of the total cases).