Tripura records massive spike in COVID-19 cases, state tally reaches 1931

The COVID-19 tally in Tripura took its highest ever leap for the month of July on July 10^th, 2020 surpassing its earlier one day highest counts.  Altogether 141 new cases were reported on Friday. On June 4^th, 2020, 151 new cases were reported which was the one day highest as of now. Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb shared the latest development in his social media account late on Friday night.

“Alert! 141 People found COVID-19 POSITIVE today out of 2125 samples tested”, the Chief Minister tweeted.

In his tweet, the Chief Minister also gave a district wise breakup of the cases reported on Friday. According the CM's shared data, the highest number of cases have been reported from Khowai district of Tripura—63, followed by West Tripura district in second position with 35, Dhalai in third(15), Gomati(10) in fourth and the list continued with Sepahijala, South Tripura and North Tripura. Unakoti was the only district that had not reported a single case despite being such a big surge on cases.

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Meanwhile, sources in the health department said, a doctor posted at a Covid care facility had also found to be positive last night. He had undergone the mandatory protocol testing that was necessary to be done after ending Covid duty shift.

Moreover, only recently, Covid 19 cases had been reported in two notable police stations—Bisramganj and Melagarh of Sepahijala district. On-duty police officers were found positive in both of the two police station prompting the police department to seal the police stations for a while.

Similar was the case with GBP hospital Agartala. The prime referral government hospital had to close its gynecology ward after three the Ward’s nurses tested positive. Though, the department remained tight lipped as to how the disease transmitted among the nurses who were on-duty at some other ward, speculations had been rife that there were lapses on the part department in managing the situation properly.

Some of the sources also told this correspondent that there were cases when people try to escape the health checkups or refuse to undergo Covid 19 test posing bigger problems before the Covid warriors in tackling the situation.

As per the latest surveillance report, the total Covid 19 cases of the state increased up to 1931, and the number of active cases stood at 545. The health administration has also started screening people with rapid antigen test and containment zones were also increased reviewing the ground situations.

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