23 cases reported during the week, positivity at 9.2%
Morung Express News
Dimapur | March 13
Nagaland reported 23 COVID-19 cases during the week at a positivity rate of 1 percent. 12 were traced contacts, 10 were armed forces personnel and 1 was a traveler, informed the state Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP) in its weekly COVID roundup issued on March 13.
The overall positivity rate was still high at 9.2 percent. District-wise, the positivity rate in Dimapur reduced to 12 percent from 12.3 percent the previous week, while there was no active case in the district. The rate for Kohima remained unchanged at 10.1 percent.
In terms of sample testing, the three districts with the highest rate of tests were Kohima, Dimapur and Peren, testing on average 139, 138 and 62 per thousand population, respectively. The average testing rate for the entire state worked out to 65 per thousand.
No new deaths were reported during the week. During the same period, 2,45,355 cases and 1,481 deaths were reported in the country.
Meanwhile, the IDSP reminded that while the many SOPs have been relaxed, “the state is nowhere near the normal as the risk of infection now is more than during the nation-wide lockdown.”
It asserted that safety boils down to individual and surviving the pandemic rests on two board principles— personal safety measures like using masks, handwashing frequently and avoiding crowded places till a certain level of immunity is achieved in the population and protecting the high-risk groups and building immunity in the population through vaccination.
Vaccination
As on March 12, a total of 53,878 doses of vaccine have been administered, as per the IDSP. The total was inclusive of 1st and 2nd dose. 12,043 were administered in the past week. 9411 healthcare workers and frontliners had been administered with second dose.
