{"id":324301,"date":"2020-06-29T03:09:06","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T03:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=324301"},"modified":"2020-06-29T05:09:34","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T05:09:34","slug":"of-1092-covid-19-cases-in-manipur-621-are-delhi-gurugram-returnees-cm-n-biren-singh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/of-1092-covid-19-cases-in-manipur-621-are-delhi-gurugram-returnees-cm-n-biren-singh\/","title":{"rendered":"Of 1092 COVID-19 Cases in Manipur, 621 are Delhi, Gurugram Returnees: CM N Biren Singh"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_324302\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-324302\" style=\"width: 966px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-324302\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/n-biren-singh.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"966\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/06\/n-biren-singh.jpg 966w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/06\/n-biren-singh-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/06\/n-biren-singh-768x420.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/06\/n-biren-singh-696x380.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 966px) 100vw, 966px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-324302\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chief Minister N. Biren Singh (Center) addresses the media at the Chief Minister\u2019s Secretariat, Imphal. Tehelka photo by Aribam Bishwajit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Chief Minister N. Biren Singh on Monday said Manipur has reported 1092 COVID-19 cases, till Saturday, of which 620 are people with travel history to Delhi and Gurugram.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cManipur has low COVID-19 positive cases in comparison to many other states. Till Saturday, the total number of cases stood at 1092, of which 621 620 are people with travel history to Delhi and Gurugram,\u201d said Mr. Biren, in his first media appearance since the recent Rajya Sabha polls.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201c155 cases are Mumbai returnees and 131 are Chennai returnees. 432 patents have been recovered and thereby discharged. There are 660 active cases. The recovery rate stands at 39.56 %.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The state government has extended the statewide lockdown by another two weeks starting from July 1 in view of the prevailing situation of COVID-19 outbreak.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThere is no community transmission in the state and the rising number of cases are due to an increasing number of returnees as well as the increased testing capacity,\u201d the chief minister said, adding that the government has also decided to operate the inter-district bus services from July 1.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Mr. Biren said: \u201cThe inter-district bus services will start its operation by strictly adhering to Standard Operating Procedure (SOPs) and guidelines issued by the authorities. Other forms of public transport will not be allowed as of now.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Around 50, 000 tests have already been conducted in the state, Mr. Biren said, and the positivity rate is only 2.31 percent, which is low in comparison to the national average. The recovery rate is 33.52 per cent in the state.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Minister N. Biren Singh on Monday said Manipur has reported 1092 COVID-19 cases, till Saturday, of which 620 are people with travel history to Delhi and Gurugram. \u201cManipur has low COVID-19 positive cases in comparison to many other states. Till Saturday, the total number of cases stood at 1092, of which 621 620 are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":324302,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2930,2030,2014],"tags":[1955,13141],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324301"}],"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=324301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324303,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324301\/revisions\/324303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/324302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}