Manipur's first coronavirus case-patient who tested positive is now declared entirely free of the dreaded COVID-19 virus and returned home from the hospital.

‘Of the total 34 Coronavirus positive cases, found so far in five northeastern states Assam (28), Manipur (2), Tripura (2), Mizoram (1), and Arunachal Pradesh (1), 28 took part in a Tablighi Jamaat meet in Delhi last month.
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The woman underwent treatment of around three weeks at the Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Medical Sciences in Imphal. Read More..





Manipur Health and Family Welfare Department’s Additional Director and spokesperson Khoirom Sasheekumar Mangang told IANS over the phone that the woman would be put under home quarantine for the next 14 days.
"Her family members, especially the father, were counseled by a team led by a State Surveillance Officer," the official said.
Managing said that 19 close contacts of a person, who left Manipur on March 12 and tested positive in Bengaluru on April 8, are tested negative in Imphal’s Regional Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS).
Besides the 23-year-old woman, another 65-year-old man from Lilong, near Imphal, had tested positive for nCoV and is undergoing treatment now at the RIMS. The man had attended the Tablighi Jamaat event at the Nizamuddin Markaz in Delhi.
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A Mizoram man tested positive last month after he returned from the Netherlands while a 52-year-old trader in Assam’s Kamrup (Metro) district has also tested positive for coronavirus. Both of them undergoing treatment in medical colleges in Aizawl and Guwahati, respectively.
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