Newmai News Network
Imphal | May 14
With a person who returned from Mumbai testing positive for COVID-19, the number of COVID-19 counts in Manipur has increased to three on May 14.
However, as the earlier two patients had already been cured and discharged from the hospitals, it is counted that there is only one active case in the state as of now.
Confirming that one 31-year-old person tested positive for the virus, COVID-19 Common Control Room of Manipur government, in a press release, said that he has been admitted at COVID- treatment block (isolated ward) of Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Medical Sciences (JNIMS) in Imphal.
Contact tracing and active surveillance in the containment zone will be done immediately, it added.
“One male person (31 years) from Imphal East district who returned from Mumbai with a patient (non-COVID) has tested positive today (May 14),” the press release informed.
Following the latest development coupled with the arrival of a large number of people stranded in Manipur, the state government of Manipur has geared up to intensify its containment measures to check the spread of the disease.
The state government has constituted District Rapid Response Teams (RRTs) and Surveillance Teams in all the districts, including 40 sub-surveillance teams in each district as preparatory arrangement.
“Quarantining of returning persons for 14 days and social distancing by all remain vital to break the spread of COVID-19 in Manipur. Everyone is requested to co-operate for collective safety of our state,” the control room functioning from chief minister’s secretariat reminded.
Official sources said that the 31-year-old individual returned to Manipur from Mumbai via Jiribam on May 13 in a hired vehicle and has been in an institutional quarantine centre since then.
His sample was tested at JNIMS’s VRDL on Thursday which the result was received late this evening.
The person returned from Mumbai where his father was treated for cancer and during their stay at Mumbai, his mother succumbed to COVID-19.
