November recorded most COVID deaths: H&FW

December 6, 2020 47 Views No Comment

DIMAPUR, DEC 5 (NPN): Health & Family Welfare department in its weekly report released on Saturday informed that November recorded the most COVID-19 deaths in the state till date– 23 cases.

It said that 32% of deaths happened within 48 hours of admission in COVID hospital. This signifies patients coming to the hospital very late in advanced stages, the department stated. H&FW said that 67% of deaths were below 60 years and 20% of deaths did not have any known comorbidity/ disease.

While expressing serious concern that the positivity in Flu Clinics continue to increase, as these people do not fall under contact tracing, the department also pointed out that the most affected among the traced contacts were in the age groups of 21-40 years. It said that these age group could be inadvertently spreading the virus to the higher risk groups. This is evident by the constant increase in positivity among the 60 plus age group (6% of traced contacts), it added.

H&FW further said that there was 1% increase in the 60 plus age group this week. The department once again reminded that household (29%) and workplaces (24%) were the most common places of infection.

Meanwhile, Nagaland’s sample positivity rate continues to remain high at around 10% signifying undetected cases in the community. Dimapur with 13.4% and Kohima 10.1% has the highest sample positivity rate in the State, the department said.

State tally 11340

Nagaland on Saturday recorded 35 new COVID-19 positive cases– 34 in Kohima and 1 in Kiphire, taking the tally to 11340.

Further, out of 11,340 cases, the distribution across various categories include 4574 cases from the armed forces/police, 1784 returnees, 4435 traced contacts and 547 frontline workers.

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