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A sudden increase in the number of cases of coronavirus (Covid-19) disease in Tripura and a steady increase in patients in Assam have caused the count in the Northeast to cross the 200 mark on Saturday.
It took just four days for the figure to double from 100 to 200 more Covid-19 cases. The first case in the region was detected in Manipur on March 24 and the figure took 24 days to reach 50 and another 18 days to cross 100 on May 4.
As of Sunday morning, the seven states in the region had 212 cases. Tripura leads the count with 132 cases, followed by Assam with 63, including a Nagaland patient who was examined and treated in Guwahati, and Meghalaya with 13.
Manipur had two cases and one in Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh: all patients in these three states recovered and were discharged. No new cases have been reported there in over a month. Nagaland has not recorded any cases to date.
There was a sudden spike in cases in Tripura, who claimed Covid-19 free status on April 24 after the first two patients tested negative.
But on May 2, two members of the 138th Border Security Force (BSF) battalion in Ambassa tested positive. A day later, 12 more people from the same battalion tested positive.
The trend continued in the coming days, and more positive cases were confirmed among BSF personnel and their families from battalion 138 and 86 of the force, both stationed in Ambassa, Dhalai district in the state.
“17 people found Covid-19 positive in Tripura today from the 86th BSF battalion, Ambassa. No civilian found positive among them, ”Tripura Prime Minister Biplab Kumar Deb tweeted on Saturday night.
Alarmed by the outbreak in the Covid-19 cases with no known source of infection, the Tripura government has asked BSF authorities to conduct an investigation. The state has also requested the Delhi-based National Center for Disease Control (NCDC) to send a team to the state to investigate the cases and stop the spread of respiratory disease.
Assam has also witnessed an increase in cases following the opening of state borders for residents returning from other parts of the country after the Union Interior Ministry allowed the interstate movement.
Two Jorhat women, who returned from Mumbai in an ambulance, as well as the driver of the vehicle, were found to be infected with Sars-Cov-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, on Saturday, taking the state account. to 63 cases.
Assam’s health minister, Himanta Biswa Sarma, said the two women were bringing back a cancer patient. Questions have been raised as to why the ambulance driver was allowed to leave the state.
“The driver went to Mumbai and we let him go because he was asymptomatic. Now, at our request, he has been detained in Bihar for hospitalization (sic), ”Sarma tweeted on Sunday morning.
As of Sunday morning, Assam had recorded 34 recoveries and two deaths. Twenty-seven Covid-19 patients are still recovering at various hospitals.
After a 19-day gap, Meghalaya recorded another positive case on Saturday, bringing the state’s count to 13 cases. While one patient died, another 10 recovered and two are in treatment.
All cases in the state have links to the first patient, a Shillong doctor, who passed away on April 15.
“Unfortunately we have another positive case in Shillong. He is a person who works in the same house (the house of the first patient), “Conrad Sangma, Prime Minister of Meghalaya, tweeted on Saturday.
“As a precaution, the health department was re-evaluating all the main contacts (of the first patient) and in the process we found this positive case. The person is safe and healthy and shows no symptoms (sic), “he added.
(With contributions from Priyanka Deb Barman in Agartala)
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