16 more COVID-19 cases reported in Nagaland; tally rises to 748

Kohima, Jul 11 () Sixteen more people tested positive for COVID-19 in Nagaland taking the state's coronavirus tally to 748 on Saturday, Health & Family Welfare Minister S Pangnyu Phom said.

The state now has 435 active cases, while 313 patients have recovered from the disease.

"Out of the more than 310 samples tested during the last 24 hours, 16 more positive cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed. 7 in Kohima, 5 in Tuensang, 3 in Mon and 1 in Mokokchung, the minister tweeted.

Officials said that Dimapur district reported the highest number of 240 cases, followed by 216 in Peren, 153 in Kohima, 76 in Mon, 41 in Tuensang, 13 in Phek, four each in Zunheboto and Mokokchung and one in Wokha.

The state reported its "first" COVID-19 cases on May 25, when three Chennai returnees were found infected with novel coronavirus.

Nagaland government has not counted a person from the state who tested positive for the virus on April 13 in Assam after a private hospital referred him to a government facility in Guwahati. He later recovered from the disease. NBS SBN NN NN