Arunachal: 3 Army personnel test COVID-19 positive, state tally reaches 67

Six people, including three Indian Army personnel, have been tested positive for COVID-19 in Arunachal Pradesh. Two of the patients are from Changlang district and one from Longding.

Informing this Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu tweeted:

Of the 67 confirmed COVID-19 cases, 63 are active and four have been cured and discharged in the state so far.

Arunachal Pradesh has conducted screening of 3,06,420 people at the entry gates and 13,479 RT-PCR tests so far, the CM informed.

Also read: Assam: 11-month-old baby tests positive for COVID-19 in Guwahati

Arunachal Pradesh and Northeast

Assam has registered the highest number of the COVID-19 cases followed by 916 in Tripura, 366 in Manipur and 128 in Nagaland.

India COVID-19 cases

India has crossed 2 lakh-mark in terms of corona positives on June 3rd. As on June 11th, the country currently has 298K confirmed COVID-19 cases, 141842 active cases with 147194 cured and discharged. The total number of deaths is 8498.

Among the states, Maharashtra is the first state to cross 3 thousand deaths. It has recorded 94041 corona cases with 44517 cured, 3438 deaths, and 46086 active cases. The western state is followed by Delhi and Tamil Nadu. Delhi has corona 32810 cases with 12245 cured, 984 deaths, and 19581 active cases. Tamil Nadu has 36841 positive cases with 19333 cured, 3262 deaths, 17182 active cases. Gujarat with 21521 COVID-19 cases, so far, has 14735 have been cured, 1347 deaths, and 5439 active cases.

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