{"id":323853,"date":"2020-06-10T13:58:54","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T13:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=323853"},"modified":"2020-06-10T13:58:54","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T13:58:54","slug":"five-new-covid-19-cases-in-manipur-tally-soars-to-309","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/five-new-covid-19-cases-in-manipur-tally-soars-to-309\/","title":{"rendered":"Five New COVID-19 cases in Manipur, Tally Soars to 309"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-323854 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/COVID-19.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"861\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/06\/COVID-19.jpg 861w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/06\/COVID-19-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/06\/COVID-19-768x469.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/06\/COVID-19-696x425.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/06\/COVID-19-687x420.jpg 687w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 861px) 100vw, 861px\" \/>Five more people have tested positive for COVID-19 in Manipur, taking the total number of cases in the state to 309, State Health Department said on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Dr Khoirom Sasheekumar Mangang, spokesperson of Manipur Health Department, in a press statement, said that the five new cases are all from the Imphal East district of the state and had recently arrived from other parts of the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The five persons were confirmed for COVID-19 at Viral Research and Diagnostic Laboratory, Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Medical Sciences, Imphal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThey are stable and are being shifted to COVID Care facilities in Imphal. All necessary precautionary measures are in place,\u201d the spokesperson added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On Tuesday, 868 samples tested at the VRDL of RIMS in Imphal on Tuesday turned out negative, the state health department added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cSo far as many as 19,854 tests have been conducted in Manipur. The rate of test per million population has now improved to 6,966 and the positivity rate is 1.56,\u201d the state health department said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Meanwhile, Chief Minister N. Biren Singh on Tuesday warned that the inmates who violate the rules and regulation of quarantine centers would be sent to jail.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe State Government has now kept aside a separate block in Central Jail, Sajiwa which can accommodate 90 inmates to jail the mischievous inmates,\u201d Biren had said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five more people have tested positive for COVID-19 in Manipur, taking the total number of cases in the state to 309, State Health Department said on Wednesday. Dr Khoirom Sasheekumar Mangang, spokesperson of Manipur Health Department, in a press statement, said that the five new cases are all from the Imphal East district of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":323854,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2930,2030,2014],"tags":[12750,1955],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323853"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323855,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323853\/revisions\/323855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/323854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}