ES Reporter

NAHARLAGUN, May 28:  Arunachal reported its second active covid-19 case on Wednesday evening after a fresh case was reported on Sunday last. This brings the states tally to three including the patient from Lohit District who recovered on April last. 
Confirming the report, Health Minister, Alo Libang informed that the 18-year-old person is a Chennai returnee and was detected COVID positive on the midnight of May 27 last. The person returned from Chennai on May 22 and the swab sample test was done on May 25 last.  
"To avoid any misinformation we had to confirm his report with ICMR-Delhi also," added the Minister.
Libang informed that the person is in COVID care center and is asymptomatic.
 "Authority is on the task of contact tracing and tracking of entire people who have traveled along with the person in the train. All of them are already in quarantine center but not taking any chances we have kept them in separate isolation," informed Minister.
Till May 27, 6334 samples were collected, 5265 are negative, 3 positive (including the recovered patient from Lohit) and 1101 test results are awaited. 
'We are establishing more TRUENAT machines so that more testing can be done in less time," informed Libang. 
On reports of three day quarantine instead of 14 days , Minister clarified that it is done as per the new central SOP. However, state government is going out of the way to take additional precautions, he added.
Meanwhile, he urged the people not to panic but to maintain all the Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) like social distancing, , wearing mask, sanitization, avoiding mass gathering and others.
"We may get more positive cases in the coming days, as many stranded people from red and orange zones have returned to the state. We need the support of the public, state government alone cannot contain this pandemic," stated Libang.

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Kenter Joya Riba

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