Mizoram registered 9 new Covid19 positive cases including 3 security personnel, in the last 24 hours, taking the state’s overall tally to 4,094.
According to the bulletin on Covid19 released by the directorate of information and public relations (DIPR) on Friday morning, of the total positive cases registered in the state so far, 3,013 are males while 1,081 are females.
The new positive cases were detected during Covid19 tests at Zoram Medical College (ZMC), the only medical college in Mizoram.
While 2 of the cases were confirmed through RT-PCR tests, 4 cases were confirmed during TrueNAT test and 3 of the new cases were detected positive during Rapid Antigen Test.
In the last 24 hours, the number of samples tested at ZMC by RT-PCR was 317; the number of samples tested at TrueNAT labs in the district hospitals was 173 and the number of Rapid Antigen Test conducted in the state was 446.
The deadly disease has so far claimed the lives of 7 people in the state.
Mizoram currently has 164 active Covid19 cases.
So far a total of 3,929 patients, who were earlier infected by Covid19, have been discharged after their recovery from the disease.
