Eight fresh cases push Nagaland's coronavirus tally to 32,255

Nagaland on Friday reported eight new COVID-19 cases, 23 less than the previous day, pushing the tally in the state to 32,255, a health department official said.

The state's coronavirus death toll remained at 703 as no patient succumbed to the disease during the last 24 hours.

The state had logged one death due to the virus on Thursday.

Nagaland now has 81 active COVID-19 cases, while 30,390 people have recovered from the disease, including eight in the last 24 hours, the official said.

Altogether 1,081 coronavirus patients have migrated to other states to date.

The recovery rate among COVID-19 patients in Nagaland is 94.21 per cent.

As many as 1,143 beneficiaries in the age group of 15-18 years were inoculated in the state on Wednesday, the health official said.

A total of 13,40,872 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered to 7,61,210 people in the state thus far.