Kohima: 181 fresh cases of COVID-19 were detected in Nagaland on Thursday taking the total number of confirmed cases to 13,750.
Of the new cases, 98 were detected through traced contacts, 78 are returnees/travellers, four are frontline workers and one is a security man.
Traced contacts comprise 41% of the total confirmed cases, followed by armed forces and security personnel at 35%, returnees and travellers at 18%, and frontline workers at 4%.
Of the fresh cases, 132 were reported from Dimapur, 42 from Kohima, three from Mokokchung, and one each from Kiphire, Mon, Phek and Zunheboto districts.
As per the statistics provided by the health department, Wokha is the only district in the state with no active cases of COVID-19.
Twenty-nine COVID-19 patients (17 from Kohima and 12 from Dimapur) also recovered from COVID-19.
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As of Thursday evening, the status of COVID-19 in the state was as follows:
Confirmed: 13,750
Active: 1,072
Recovered: 12,212
Deaths: 90
Migrated: 365
Besides the COVID-19 death toll, another 11 deaths were reported of which 10 are not related to COVID-19 and one is under investigation.
As per the severity of symptoms among the active cases, 973 are asymptomatic, 68 are mild symptomatic, 12 are moderate on oxygen, 17 are severe on oxygen, and two are critical in ICU on ventilator.
