Coronavirus Covid19
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Five more persons have tested positive for COVID-19 in Nagaland taking the state’s total tally of active cases to 25.

This was informed by Nagaland health minister S Pangnyu Phom through his official Twitter handle early Friday morning.

Phom tweeted:

‘Alert! 5 more tested positive of COVID19.  1 at Dimapur & 4 at Kohima. All returnees from Chennai. Nagaland stand at 25 as on 7:20 am of 29/05/2020.’

The new cases include one from Dimapur and four from Kohima.

All of them have returned from Chennai recently.

Earlier on Thursday, nine persons had tested positive for COVID-19 in the State.