North East

Itanagar, July 9: Arunachal Pradesh reported 11 fresh COVID-19 cases on Thursday, raising the state's tally of coronairus patient to 287, a health department official said. Of the new cases, five each were detected in the Capital Complex region and Lower Subansiri district and one in Changlang, State Surveillance Officer Dr L Jampa said. The Capital Complex comprises Itanagar, Naharlagun, Nirjuli and Banderdewa towns. Of the five fresh patients in the Capital Complex, three were found in a quarantine centre at Lekhi near here and all of them are returnees,...

Guwahati, July 8: The Jorhat district administration in Assam has decided to impose a week-long "total lockdown" across Jorhat city from July 9 to check the spread of coronavirus, Deputy Commissioner Roshni Aparanji Korati said on Wednesday. The DC has also issued a show-cause notice to the principal of Jorhat Medical College and Hospital for alleged negligence in allowing a surgeon to return from Guwahati to join duty before the result of his COVID-19 test is out, an official said. Issuing an order, Korati said that "total lockdown" will be...

Imphal, July 8: A senior medical officer has been arrested in Manipur for procuring substandard N95 masks for supply to a district hospital, police said on Wednesday. Dr M Dinesh Singh, posted at the Central Medical Store of the Directorate of Health Services, Manipur was arrested on Tuesday, a statement issued by the Vigilance and Anti- corruption wing of the state police said. During preliminary investigation, it has come to light that the accused, also the state nodal officer of the State Health Society of the National Health Mission, Manipur,...

Guwahati, July 8: Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal has directed the Fisheries Department to create employment opportunities under a central government scheme for youths returning to the state due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Sonowal said the department should make the best use of the Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana to create employment opportunities for the returnees. The chief minister, during a meeting with officials of the department on Tuesday, asked them to finalise a roadmap for implementation of the scheme that seeks to bring about a 'blue revolution' through sustainable...

Itanagar, July 8: The office of the Superintendent of Police in Arunachal Pradesh's Capital Complex region, where a week-long total lockdown is underway, has been sealed after a woman constable deployed there tested positive for COVID-19, a top police officer said on Wednesday. Director General of Police (DGP), R P Upadhaya, said that the Capital Complex SP office was sealed on Tuesday evening and its 80 staff members will be tested for COVID-19 during the day. "The office will reopen only after proper disinfection of the building and campus," he...

Aizawl, July 7: At least six people, including five National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) personnel, have tested positive for novel coronavirus in Mizoram, taking the states COVID-19 tally to 197, an official said on Tuesday. Of the 49 samples tested, these six people were found infected with novel coronavirus on Monday night, he said. Five of them were NDRF personnel posted at Lungverh, about 15 km from Aizawl, and they have travel history to Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Manipur and Assam. The sixth person, a woman of Siaha district, recently...

Itanagar, July 7: Arunachal Pradesh reported its second COVID-19 fatality as a 40-year-old man died at the Tomo Riba Institute of Health and Medical Sciences at Naharlagun, a senior health official said on Tuesday. The man from Dirang in West Kameng district died in the states lone medical college and hospital on Monday, he said. The man, suffering from Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD), was under week-long dialysis at TRIHMS, State Surveillance Officer L Jampa said. The body of the deceased was handed over to the relatives after full sanitisation, he...

Aizawl, July 6: Five more Border Security Force (BSF) personnel in Mizoram tested positive for coronavirus infection, taking the state's COVID-19 tally to 191, a state health department official said on Monday. The five persons - four jawans and a cook are posted at the BSF camp in Vanhne in south Mizoram's Lunglei district. The four jawans recently returned to the state from Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Assam and Meghalaya and were under quarantine, while the cook has no travel history, the official said. The five, who are aged between 27...

Shillong, July 6: Eight persons, including 5 BSF personnel have tested positive for COVID-19 in Meghalaya on Monday, increasing the number of active cases to 36, Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma said. The chief minister made this announcement in his social media accounts, including Twitter. "7 persons have tested positive for COVID-19 in the state. 1 from Ri-Bhoi, 6 from Shillong (5 BSF personnel and 1 returnee from Guwahati)," he said. In an earlier post on Monday, he said that a returnee from Assam has also tested positive for coronavirus...

Imphal, July 6: Police seized a huge quantity of cough syrup and arrested two persons in Manipurs Thoubal district on Monday, an officer said. Acting on a tip-off, a police team raided a house at Lilong Tharaorok area in the early hours of Monday and seized 485 bottles of cough syrups, the officer said. The two persons have been arrested and an FIR has been lodged at Lilong police station against them. The police is investigating as to how they got hold of such huge quantity of cough syrups, he...