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Nagaland registered two new COVID-19 positive cases on Tuesday.

This was informed by state health minister S Pangnyu Phom through this official Twitter handle on Tuesday morning.

Phom wrote:

‘2 new cases of COVID-19 +ve have been reported out of 316 samples tested. All cases are from Kohima QC.

Positive       : 179

Active          : 87

Recovered  : 92

Death           : 00

Update at 8: 48 am, 16th June, 2020.’

With these two new cases, the total number of COVID-19 positive cases in the State went up to 179.

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However, on this day, there are 87 active cases.

Ninety-two persons have already recovered from the deadly coronavirus.

The State has not recorded any COVID-19 related deaths so far.