Mizoram records highest daily Covid cases in northeast for 21 days

AIZAWL: Covid-19 cases in Mizoram continued to rise with the state recording the highest number of daily infections among the eight northeastern states for the past 21 days now.
While the daily cases were around 1,000 a day for several days, the number of fresh cases on Sunday was 541, mainly because no tests were conducted on Sundays at the RT-PCR laboratory in the Zoram Medical College (ZMC) near Aizawl.The results of mass sample tests were not included either.
The number of infected people rose to 71,381 on Monday while there were 59,060 recoveries, making the recovery rate the lowest in the northeast at 82.74% as against the national average of 97.51%.
The positivity rate in the state on Monday was a whooping 31.02% against the national daily positivity rate of 2.26%. The number of active cases was 12,080 (16.92%) on Monday with the total deaths at 241 (0.34% from the number of infected people).
The relentless spike in Covid-19 cases since the advent of the second wave of the pandemic in the state has left the government worried.