Nagaland has registered 50 new COVID19 positive cases on Sunday, taking the stateโ€™s overall tally to 4,178.

Confirming the news, Nagaland health minister S Pangnyu Phom in his latest tweet on the stateโ€™s COVID19 status on Sunday said: โ€œUpdate! 50 new +ve cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed.โ€

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The health minister informed that out of the new positive cases, 42 have been detecetd in Dimapur district, 7 cases have been detected in Kohima district and 1 case has been reported from Mon district.

โ€œContact tracing has been activated by our IDSP Team & all primary contacts are kept under self-isolation,โ€ the health minister said.

According to the Saturday report of the Nagaland health department, a total of 3,419 pateints have rcovered from the disease.

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The health departmentโ€™s report also said the disease claimed the lives of 8 positive patients in Nagaland so far while 2 other positive patients died due to other causes.

The report further said โ€œ5 death cases in Dimapurโ€ are โ€œunder investigationโ€.

A total of 10 positive cases migrated from the state.