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ITANAGAR, May 18:  Covid situation in Arunachal Pradesh on Tuesday saw no marked improvement with 3 more casualties and an exponential rise in new cases.

Among the three citizens who succumbed to the virus was a 71-yr old female from Anini, Dibang Valley district who expired at DCHC, Anini on Monday evening. She was Covid positive and suffering from diabetes. A 51-yr old male Covid patient from Eraloni village, Lekang in Namsai district expired on Monday afternoon at Aditya Hospital, Dibrugarh. He was suffering from hypertension and expired due to cardio respiratory failure. Meanwhile, a 40-yr old male resident from the Ganga Market area in the state capital who was suffering from Covid pneumonia and had the comorbidity of diabetes expired today at DCH Chimpu where he was admitted on May 7 last. With these 3 deaths Arunachal’s casualty toll is now 88.

The day saw an alarming rise in fresh cases across the state with various districts catching up fast with the ICR. A total of 356 new cases were recorded, a jump by 52 over the previous day’s count. It’s pertinent to mention that symptomatic cases (216) on the day have outnumbered the asymptomatic ones (140), unlike the trend till now where it was asymptomatic cases that formed the major portion of daily caseloads. After this rise, the state's active Covid count has reached 2397. While in the ICR cases have dipped (from Monday’s 89 to Tuesday’s 58), overall concern has sustained with Namsai and Anjaw recording 50 cases each, followed by Lower Subansiri 33, LDV and Tawang 24 each and Upper Subansiri 21. However, there is a silver lining in recoveries which has seen a jump from Monday’s 214 to 302 (ICR-77, Anjaw 49, Tawang 35 and LDV 26 the first four). This has taken the state’s discharge tally to 19977. Sample collection for Covid tests saw further improvement with a total of 4888 collected on Tuesday from across the state.

Occupancy status at the CCCs as of May18 was- 42 Covid patients at DCH Chimpu, 35 at SQF Lekhi, 6 at DCHC Midpu, 4 at DCH Pasighat and 39 at DCHC.