3 Army personnel among six new COVID-19 cases in Arunachal Pradesh

Six more people, including three Army personnel, have tested positive for COVID-19 in Arunachal Pradesh, taking total number of cases in state to 67, a health department official said on Friday. Three Army men tested positive for disease in Singchung sub-division of West Kameng district on Thursday night, while two persons were detected with infection in Changlang and one in Longding, he said.

" three Army personnel had recently returned from Bihar, while two from Changlang had come from ida and one from Longding had travelled back from Gujarat. y are asymptomatic and lodged in quarantine centres," State Surveillance Officer Dr L Jampa said.

Army has its own protocol and three would be mand by m, he said. Contact tracing has been initiated, Dr T Taipodia, who is dealing with COVID-19 manment in Arunachal Pradesh, said. West Kameng district's COVID-19 dal officer Dr Kesang Wangda has issued an advisory to civilians living in and around Army cantonment areas of Tenga and Dahung, requesting m t to enter into restricted areas unnecessarily.One of three Army personnel is a doctor, sources said. Arunachal Pradesh has 63 active cases, while four patients have recovered from disease.

Among active cases, 42 are from Changland district, followed by three each from East Siang and West Kameng, two each from Namsai and Lohit and one each from Lower Dibang Valley, Tawang, Upper Siang, Tirap, Longding and West Siang districts. Five active cases are from capital complex comprising Itanagar and Naharlagun.

According to a bulletin of health department, a total of 13,479 samples were tested in state till Thursday, while results of 1,627 are awaited. first case in Arunachal Pradesh was reported in April 2, after a 31-year-old man tested positive for disease following his return from a religious congregation in Delhi. He was discharged from a hospital on April 16. After almost six weeks, state had registered its second case on May 24, after a student who had returned from Delhi tested positive for disease.