Morung Express News
Dimapur | November 7
Detection of COVID-19 cases in Nagaland dropped during the week (October 31-November 6) with the state reporting 382 confirmed cases.
Despite the drop in detection, sample positivity was still high at 9.1 percent against the national 7.2 percent, informed the state Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme, Health & Family Welfare, Nagaland, in its weekly COVID roundup. The 382 cases were out of 3,218 samples tested, indicating a positivity rate of 12 percent for the week—1 percentage point lower than the previous week.
The report also cautioned, “There is again a 1% increase in the 60 plus age group which indicates an epidemiological shift from the younger to the older age groups. The percentage of positive traced contacts in the 60-plus age group is now 5%.”
It further observed that infections in people with co-morbidities are making a gradual surge, “which could mean more hospitalisations and even deaths.”
The state also reported 6 COVID-19 deaths during the week, with the IDSP adding that 62 percent of all deaths were below 60 years of age.
