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Two more persons died due to COVID-19 in the state on Friday taking the death toll to 7.

According to health officials, the two fresh COVID-19 fatalities are a 65-year-old woman from Naharlagun who was suffering from chronic kidney disease and an army jawan belonging to the Unit-18 of 190 Kumaon Mountain Brigade.

Officials said the woman suffering from chronic kidney disease for the past two years was admitted at the Dedicated Covid-19 Hospital at Chimpu on August 25 after she tested positive for Covid-19.

She breathed her last at 10.30 am on Friday.

On the other hand, the 44-year-old army havildar lost his battle with Covid-19 on Thursday. He was posted in Tawang district.

The jawan had tested Covid-19 positive on August 16 and had a fever with chills, dry cough and headache since Aug 12, health officials said.

He was being treated at 305 MH-Khirmu in Tawang since August 15 and

was referred to MH-181 Tenga, West Kameng after his condition deteriorated, the officials added.

Arunachal on Friday also registered 112 new Covid-19 cases which took the stateโ€™s active tally to 1029.

Five out of the 112 are symptomatic patients.

Damien Lepcha is Northeast Now Correspondent in Arunachal Pradesh. He can be reached at: [email protected]