State witnessed 44% increase in weekly Covid cases: H&FW

August 8, 2021 48 Views No Comment

DIMAPUR, AUG 8 (NPN) : State Health & Family Welfare department, in its weekly bulletin released on Saturday, informed that the state witnessed an increase of 44% new Covid cases as compared to the previous week (July 24-30).

As per the data, 597 positive cases were recorded during the previous week. However, the cases jumped to 732 between (July 31-Aug 6), the highest ever since June 12 this year.

Though the weekly sample positivity rate remained the same as last week at 6%, the department however said that three districts reported weekly sample positivity rate of more than 10%– Kohima district’s weekly sample positivity jumped from 13% to 16%, Longleng from 5% to 11% and Peren from 3% to 11%. Mon and Zunheboto recorded the lowest weekly sample positivity rate at 1% each. Further, the state also recorded 85 Covid-19 hospital admissions and 21 Covid-19 deaths during the week.

H&FW said that 99% of Covid-19 deaths reported since March this year in the state were those who had not been fully vaccinated while 90% deaths were those who had not received even a single dose of the Covid-19 vaccine.

“Although the main aim of vaccines is to break the link between positive cases and hospital admissions/ deaths, it can also reduce transmission to a great extent,” it added.

Only 12% of total cases since March 2021 were vaccinated with a single dose of Covid-19 vaccine which was just 0.32% of the total vaccinated people with at least one dose. Till August 6, the department said that 60 villages in the state achieved 100% vaccination of eligible beneficiaries.

State logs 106 fresh cases, 1 death: Nagaland on Saturday recorded 106 fresh Covid-19 positive cases while one more patient succumbed to the virus.

Of the fresh cases, 36 were from Dimapur, Peren-27, Kohima-15, Mokokchung-12, five in Zunheboto, four in Wokha, three in Tuensang, two in Phek and one each in Longleng and Mon, taking the total caseload to 28445. The death toll rose to 583 after one more patient succumbed to the virus in Mon.

Source: http://www.nagalandpost.com/state-witnessed-44-increase-in-weekly-covid-cases-h-fw/237862.html