Meghalaya reports 106 new COVID-19 cases, death toll rises to 8
An eighty-four year old patient died due to COVID-19 at the Tura civil hospital in West Garo Hills district on Sunday, taking the death toll in the state to eight.
The total active cases in the state has also gone up to 1,133 after one hundred and six more persons, including 62 civilians, have tested positive for coronavirus on Sunday.
Director of Health Services (MI), Dr Aman War said Maheshwar Pratap Chobe (84), a resident of Tikrikilla Bazaar area, who tested positive for COVID-19 during a random testing, was admitted at the Tura civil hospital on August 18.
“He (Chobe) however passed away at 12.45 am on Sunday. The cause of death was due to acute respiratory distress syndrome with COVID-19, Ischeimic heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, epilepsy and bronchitis asthma,” he said.
Dr War also informed that the body of the patient was taken to Tikrikilla after there were opposition against cremation at Tura.
This also came a day after one COVID-19 patient had passed away at Shillong civil hospital.
On the other hand, the Director informed that the state has reported a total of 106 new cases today of which 64, including 38 civilians and 26 armed forces and paramilitary forces, were detected from East Khasi Hills district, 16 from West Khasi Hills district, 10 from South Garo Hills district, 9 from West Garo Hills district, 3 each from East Jaintia Hills district and Ri Bhoi district and 1 from North Garo Hills district.
He said the 38 civilians from East Khasi Hills include a food handler at MATI Corona Care Centre, Mawdiangdiang, a patient at the North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health & Medical Sciences (NEIGRIHMS), a returnee and 35 are contacts of positive cases.
He said the sixteen cases in West Khasi Hills are all from the Shahlang random testing while the 10 cases in South Garo Hills are from the armed forces and paramilitary forces, 9 including 7 armed forces-paramilitary forces and 2 from random sampling at Phulbari and Jaldupara are in West Garo HIlls, 2 high risk contacts and a returnee in Ri Bhoi, 3 returnees in East Jaintia Hills and 1 high risk contact in North Garo Hills.
Dr War further informed that seven more patients, that include 3 from East Khasi Hills, 2 from Ri Bhoi, 1 each from East Jaintia Hills and North Garo Hills, have also recovered today, taking the total recoveries in the state to 776.
East Khasi Hills has the highest number of active cases at 723 that include 456 civilians and 267 AF/PF, followed by West Garo Hills 223 cases (146 AF/PF forces and 77 civilians), 94 cases (68 civilians and 26 AF/PF) in Ri Bhoi and 44 in West Khasi Hills.
In other districts, East Jaintia Hills has 14 cases, 12 each in South Garo Hills and North Garo Hills and 3 each in East Garo Hills and West Jaintia Hills.
Meanwhile, the state has so far recorded a total of 1,917 COVID-19 positive cases of which 1,133 active and eight deaths
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