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Two more persons died due to COVID-19 in the state on Friday taking the death toll to 7.

According to health officials, the two fresh COVID-19 fatalities are a 65-year-old woman from Naharlagun who was suffering from chronic kidney disease and an army jawan belonging to the Unit-18 of 190 Kumaon Mountain Brigade.

Officials said the woman suffering from chronic kidney disease for the past two years was admitted at the Dedicated Covid-19 Hospital at Chimpu on August 25 after she tested positive for Covid-19.

She breathed her last at 10.30 am on Friday.

On the other hand, the 44-year-old army havildar lost his battle with Covid-19 on Thursday. He was posted in Tawang district.

The jawan had tested Covid-19 positive on August 16 and had a fever with chills, dry cough and headache since Aug 12, health officials said.

He was being treated at 305 MH-Khirmu in Tawang since August 15 and

was referred to MH-181 Tenga, West Kameng after his condition deteriorated, the officials added.

Arunachal on Friday also registered 112 new Covid-19 cases which took the state’s active tally to 1029.

Five out of the 112 are symptomatic patients.

Damien Lepcha is Northeast Now Correspondent in Arunachal Pradesh. He can be reached at: [email protected]