Itanagar, October 3 (PTI): At least 200 more people, including eight security personnel, have tested positive for COVID-19 in Arunachal Pradesh, pushing the northeastern states caseload to 10,220, a senior health official said on Saturday.
A 54-year-old sub-inspector of Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) and a 51-year-old official of Border Road Task Force (BRTF), succumbed to the infection, taking the state’s coronavirus death toll to 18, State Surveillance Officer (SSO) Dr L Jampa said.
Five Army men, two state police personnel and an ITBP jawan are among the new patients, he said. Four prisoners in Lower Dibang Valley district and three health workers in Kurung Kumey have also contracted the infection, Dr Jampa said.
Barring 16, all the new patients are asymptomatic and shifted to COVID-19 care centres, the official said.
As many as 134 more people were cured of the disease and discharged from hospitals, taking the recovery rate among COVID-19 patients in the state to 70.28 per cent, he said.
Arunachal Pradesh now has 3,019 active coronavirus cases, while 7,183 people have been cured of the disease so far, the official said.
