Covid s Delta plus variant detected in Tripura, 1st time in NE
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Agartala, July 10 : The highly infectious Delta plus variant of coronavirus has been found for the first time in Tripura after the Delta strain was detected in three northeastern states Assam, Manipur and Mizoram, doctors said here on Saturday.
Agartala Government Medical College (AGMC) Microbiology department head Tapan Mazumder said that after the samples of Tripura were tested in the National Institute of Biomedical Genomics (NIBMG) at Kalyani in West Bengal, 138 cases of Delta plus, 10 cases of Delta (plain) and three cases of UK variant were found in the northeastern state.
36 children of two orphanages in Tripura test positive for COVID-19
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Thirty-two children at the Jawaharlal Nehru Girls Home at Narsingarh tested positive for coronavirus while four cases were detected at Ujan Abhoynagar Childrens Home, state Education Minister Ratan Lal Nath said.
Agencies In the second wave, children are also testing positive for the virus. We are monitoring the situation, and all the homes have been asked to take measures to prevent infections, State COVID-19 Surveillance Officer Dr. Deep Debbarma said.
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Thirty-six girls, aged between 5 and 16 years, in two orphanages in the Tripura state capital have tested positive for COVID-19, a minister said on Monday. All of them are in a stable condition and are in isolation within the orphanages, a senior official said.
Tripura government sounds alert after three strains of COVID-19 are found in the state
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Last Updated: Apr 30, 2021, 05:37 PM IST
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Immediately after the receipt of the test results of outsiders by the state government, Tripura health secretary J K Sinha held a virtual meeting on Thursday with district magistrates, superintendent of police and the chief medical Officers of all the eight districts and asked them to take all precautions and strictly maintain the COVID-19 norms, officials said.
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The Tripura government has sounded an alert after the double mutant strain of coronavirus and those of Britain and African variants were found in the state, officials said on Friday. The state government has decided to hold full-fledged virus tests for passengers entering the state via airways, trains and roadways and quarantine the infected among them, the officials said.
Covid vaccination mock drill conducted in two Assam districts
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US states to start getting Covid-19 vaccine from Monday. Image Source: IANS News
Guwahati/Agartala, Dec 29 : As the people across the world keenly await a Covid-19 vaccine, a mock-drill, called dry-run, of coronavirus vaccination was done effectively involving 250 health workers on Monday and Tuesday in two northwestern districts of Assam: Sonitpur and Nalbari. All the 250 health workers spontaneously participated in the dry-run of the vaccination without any technical hitch or any other problem, said a senior official of the National Health Mission (NHM), which had been mandated to carry out the task.