COVID-19: Nagaland sees 43% increase in cases in past week

January 30, 2022 48 Views No Comment

• 4 more districts under ‘situational level 2’ category
• Eligible people encouraged to take 3rd booster vaccine dose

Morung Express News
Dimapur | January 30

A total of 832 cases were reported in Nagaland this week (January 22-28) with a 43% increase from previous week’s tally of 582 cases, according to the latest weekly bulletin of the state’s Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP).

With the rise in cases, four more districts— Mokokchung, Tuensang, Wokha, and Peren have been under the ‘Situational Level 2’ category along with Dimapur and Kohima.

Among the districts, Dimapur reported 72 percent of the cases with 602, followed by Kohima with 106, Mokokchung-35, Tuensang- 29, Wokha- 25, and Peren- 18. These districts also recorded weekly sample positivity rate of more than 10 percent, according to the IDSP.

“Many cases remain unreported from self-tests at home,” it noted.

Meanwhile in the same week, Phek reported seven cases; there were three new cases each in Mon, Longleng and Kiphire, one in Zunheboto.

As per the data, the weekly sample positivity rate also increased from 11 percent to 19 percent within the week and the health department cautioned that “Those with symptoms (fever, cold like/flu like symptoms etc) should be considered COVID-19 positive unless tested negative at this stage of community transmission.”

Hospitalisation and deaths
The IDSP informed that there has been a 127 percent increase in new COVID-19 hospital admissions with 50 new admissions as opposed to 22 in the previous week.

As of yesterday (January 28), it said, 13 patients were classified under severe/moderate category from COVID-19 hospitals.

The data also revealed that eight COVID-19 deaths were reported from the week (Dimapur: 7 and Mokokchung: 1).

From January 2022, it said 10 deaths have been reported and 8 out of the 10 were found to have existing comorbidities. “This calls for urgent vaccination of ‘at-risk’ groups and booster dose if eligible,” the IDSP urged.

In terms of vaccination, the weekly bulletin stated that 14.64 lakh doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered across the state. Out of these, 44,642 teenagers between 15-18 years of age and 11,410 precautionary doses have also been administered for healthcare workers, frontline workers and those under ‘at-risk’ category.

Vaccines are working very well against hospitalizations and deaths, but effectiveness decreases over time. Hence, 3rd dose is recommended for those at high risk- 60 plus elderly with comorbidities and healthcare/frontline workers after 9 months of 2nd dose, the IDSP added.

Nagaland COVID: 87 new cases, 2 deaths
Dimapur, January 29 (MExN): Nagaland’s COVID-19 cases count continued its upward trend with 87 new cases on Saturday. The state also saw an increase in the death toll with 2 more deaths reported from Dimapur in the last 24 hours.

Among the new cases, 66 were reported from Dimapur, 17 from Kohima and 4 from Tuensang district. Most of the cases (46) were from self tests and random testing, 23 were detected among travellers or returnees, 14 were traced contacts and 4 were frontline workers.

On the other hand, 65 persons who previously tested positive for the virus recovered on Saturday as per the IDSP’s latest daily health bulletin.

With this, the state now has a cumulative tally of 34,267 infections out of which 907 are active cases and 31,258.
As per the IDSP data, 760 of the active cases are asymptomatic, 134 have mild symptoms, 7 have moderate symptoms while 6 are in ICU on ventilators.

Source: https://www.morungexpress.com/covid-19-nagaland-sees-43-increase-in-cases-in-past-week