One more positive tested for COVID-19 in Meghalaya, state tally rise to 12

One more tested positive for COVID-19 in Meghalaya on Monday.

With this new COVID19 positive case, the total number of positive cases counted in Meghalaya has rise to 12 including 11 active cases and one death case.

The patient is one of the family friends of the first positive case.

Advising this on Monday night, Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma said the infected individual is already in quarantine in the city.

"One of the family friends of the positive patient has also been tested positive. The individual is already now in quarantine centre. The all out number is at 12. One death, and other 11 are stable," Chief Minister Sangma tweeted at 11.09 pm on Monday.

Eight of the positive cases are relatives of the first COVID19 patient, and two are domestic helpers.

Chief Minister Sangma tweeted: At 7:12 pm on Monday "838 examples are sent for testing and 714 people are tested negative. There are 11 positive cases in Meghalaya out of which 10 are active. We await 113 test reports."

Meghalaya Chief Minister, AL Hek said the Bethany Hospital in Shillong, where Meghalaya's first COVID-19 positive case was detected, has been briefly closed right down to contain the further spread of the infection by moving all the staff of the hospital to different areas.

The first positive patient, 69-year-old Dr John L Sailo Ryntathiang, who was the director of Bethany Hospital, died on April 15 thanks to complications after disease.