FRESH CASE OF COVID-19 REPORTED AT MANIPUR

             Manipur reported a fresh case of COVID-19 on Thursday after a 31-year-old man who returned from Mumbai tested positive for the virus. Official sources said the COVID-19 patient is the son of the Manipuri woman who succumbed to the virus in Mumbai on May 6. The 31-year-old from Imphal East district arrived in the state on Wednesday by road in a private vehicle. He was accompanied by four others including his father, who is a cancer patient. Five of them were evacuated to a quarantine centre in Imphal East district on Wednesday. Of the five samples sent for testing at the laboratory in Jawarharlal Nehru Institute of Medical Sciences (JNIMS), the sample of the 31-year-old was tested positive for the virus on Thursday. He (the patient) along with his late mother had gone to Mumbai city for the cancer treatment of his father. The patient has been evacuated to Isolation ward of JNIMS hospital. An official statement from the Manipur Health department said that contact tracing and active surveillance in the containment zone has begun with immediate effect.