Three women including a nurse and a youth tested coronavirus positive during the past 24 hours in Manipur.
A 76-year-old woman and her 48-year-old son tested positive for COVID-19 in Manipur, taking the state’s total number of positive cases to seven with five active cases.
The two persons had recently arrived from Mumbai, where one of them underwent treatment at the Tata Memorial Hospital.
Manipur health and family welfare department’s additional director Khoirom Sasheekumar Mangang said the woman and her son belonged to a 36-member group, which returned to Manipur from Mumbai on May 8.
A nurse, who was under quarantine since her return from Kolkata, and a 22-year-old girl, who recently returned to Manipur from Chennai, also tested positive for COVID-19.
Thousands return to Manipur
A special train from Bengaluru carrying 1384 Manipuris stranded due to the nationwide lockdown imposed to contain Covid-19 pandemic reached Jiribam Railway Station on Sunday, UNI reports.
About half-a-dozen train is expected to reach the state within the next few days.