5,736 inoculated in Arunachal Pradesh

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ITANAGAR: A total of 5,736 Health workers have received shots of COVID-19 vaccine so far across the State, including 1,272 during the vaccination sessions carried out on Friday, said State Immunization Officer (SIO) Dr Dimong Padung.

Padung said that the state health department has been carrying out inoculation drive four days a week — Monday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. He said that so far seven persons have developed immunization after-effects in the State.

The highest numbers of vaccines were administered in Papumpare district so far with 734 persons receiving jabs, followed by Namsai (571) and West Kameng (490), added Padung.

The State has received 32,000 doses of Covishield vaccine from the Centre till now.

Meanwhile, One more person tested positive for COVID-19 in Arunachal Pradesh, taking the tally in the State to 16,817.

COVID-19 CASES: Meanwhile, two more people recuperated from the infection, taking the total number of recoveries in the State to 16,724, said State Surveillance Officer (SSO) Dr Lobsang Jampa on Saturday.

The recovery rate now is 99.44 per cent while the fatality ratio is 0.33 per cent. The positivity rate is 0.22 per cent. As on date, the State has 37 active COVID-19 cases while 56 people have succumbed to the infection so far.

The State has so far conducted 3,89,149 sample tests, including 453 on Friday.

The single case was detected from Lepa Rada district through Rapid Antigen Test and the patient was asymptomatic.

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