AIZAWL: Mizoram reported the first COVID-19 death in six months.
It was in October 2022 that Mizoram recorded the last fatality due to COVID-19.
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The deceased is a 63-year-old woman.
She was infected with COVID-19 and died in a private hospital at Aizawl in Mizoram on Monday (May 1).
This is the first COVID-19 fatality since October 29, 2022 when the last death due to the virus was reported in Mizoram.
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According to Mizoram health department bulletin, 34 people have tested positive for the disease in the last 24 hours.
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The number of active cases in Mizoram have risen to 78.
Thus far, 2,39,086 people have been infected with COVID-19 and 727 people succumbed to the infection.
A total of 2,38,281 people have recovered from the disease in Mizoram.
More than 19 lakh samples have been tested for COVID-19 in Mizoram.
Official sources also said that Mizoram registered a steady rise in COVID-19 cases since April.
As many as 82 COVID-19 positive cases were reported in Mizoram last month.