23-year-old woman who tested positive for COVID-19 in Manipur is recovering very fast:COVID-19

The 23-year-old woman who tested positive for COVID-19 in Manipur is recovering very fast, a senior health official said on Wednesday. 

The lady, an resident of Thangmeiband Lourung Purel Leikai region in Imphal West district, had recently came back from the UK and was tested positive on Tuesday. 

She can breathe without the help of a oxygen mask and is also having food on her own, said Th Bhimo Singh, the director of the Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Medical Sciences (JNIMS). 

All her family have tested negative for COVID-19, officials at the hospital said.

 

However, three post-graduate medical students at the JNIMS have been sent to quarantine, they stated, without revealing any details. 

The decision to send these students, two of whom are pursuing surgery and another general medicine, to quarantine was taken following an emergency meeting of the COVID-19 Control Committee and other head of departments of the hospital, said medical superintendent T Taken Singh. 

Two of the students have been sent to the State Quarantine Center in Khuman Lampak and one of them has been moved to the highest floor of the ladies hostel in the JNIMS complex, officials said. 

The mother of one of the student has also been sent to the state quarantine centre, they said. 

On Tuesday night, health workers along with police personnel sanitised the JNIMS complex where the Northeast region's first COVID-19 patient is undergoing treatment.