Aizawl: At least 483 people, including 127 children, have tested positive for COVID-19 in Mizoram, pushing the state’s tally to 26,690, an official statement said on Saturday.
The state also reported one more COVID-19 death in the last 24 hours, which took the death toll to 120, it said.
The fresh 483 cases detected from 5,026 samples tested in the last 24 hours put the single-day positivity rate at 9.61 per cent, it said.
Aizawl district reported the highest new COVID-19 cases at 279, followed by Kolasib and Lunglei districts at 59 and 52 cases, respectively.
The remaining cases were reported from Mamit district (36), Lawngtlai district (28), Siaha district (27), Champhai and Khawzawl (one case each).
Fifty-eight new cases were confirmed at RT-PCR laboratory in Zoram Medical College (ZMC), while eight cases were detected through TrueNat facilities and 417 cases were detected through rapid antigen tests, the statement said.
Only one patient has a travel history, while the rest 482 were found to have contracted the infection locally, it said.
Mizoram now has 5,741 COVID-19 active cases, while 20,829 people have recovered from the infection.
The recovery rate among COVID-19 patients is 78 per cent and death rate is 0.44 per cent. The Northeastern state has tested over 5.51 lakh samples for Covid-19 till date.
According to state immunisation officer Dr Lalzawmi, as many as 6 lakh people have been inoculated till Friday, of which over 1.2 lakh have received both doses of vaccine.
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Meanwhile, the state government has decided to re-structure the discharge protocols.
An official said that the meeting of important officials and representatives of NGOs, churches and community leaders on Thursday decided to release COVID-19 patients from Covid-19 care facilities without conducting mandatory discharge test provided the inmates do not have fever during the last three days of the 100day-long treatment at the Covid-19 care facilities.
Earlier, it was mandatory for the patient to undergo a sample test to obtain negative result in order to be able to be discharged from the Covid-19 care facilities.