Mizoram reports 256 new Covid cases, tally crosses 20,000 mark

    30-Jun-2021
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AIZAWL, Jun 30
Mizoram‘s COVID-19 count crossed the 20,000-mark on Wednesday as 256 more people tested positive for the coronavirus, a health official said.
The fresh cases detected from 3,534 samples took the state’s tally to 20,075 and put the single-day positivity rate at 7.27 per cent, he said.
The new COVID-19 cases were reported from various districts with Aizawl recording the highest at 154, followed by Kolasib and Lawngtlai at 50 and 17 cases, respectively, he said.
As many as 68 children and four inmates of an orphanage and rehabilitation centre in Kolasib district were among the newly-infected people, he said.
Twenty-two patients have travel history and the rest 234 were found to have locally contracted the virus.
As many as 117 patients have developed symptoms of COVID-19 and 139 are asymptomatic, the official said.
Mizoram now has 4,471 COVID-19 active cases, while 15,512 people have recovered from the infection. The COVID-19 death toll in the state is 92.
The recovery among COVID-19 patients is 77.27 per cent and the death rate is 0.45 per cent. The state has so far tested over 4.85 lakh samples for COVID-19.
According to state immunisation officer Dr Lalzawmi, more than 5 lakh people have been vaccinated till Tuesday. East Mojo