14 Chennai returnees test positive in Nagaland, tally mounts to 94

KOHIMA: Fourteen more Chennai returnees tested positive for the novel coronavirus in Nagaland since Thursday night, taking the state's tally to 94.
"Fourteen new positive cases of Covid-19 have been reported in the last 24 hours out of 235 samples tested. All the samples tested were of Chennai returnees," minister for health and family welfare S Pangnyu Phom tweeted.
The patients, who belong to Peren district, were under quarantine in government facilities in Dimapur since their return to the state by a Shramik Special train on May 22, state nodal officer for integrated disease surveillance program Nyan Kikon said."All of them are under 30 years of age and asymptomatic at present," he said, adding that they are being treated at a Covid-19 hospital in Dimapur.
Dimapur accounts for the highest number of coronavirus cases in Nagaland as 71 have tested positive so far. The state has not reported any death or recovery to date.