'Wear-a-Mask' campaign yields positive results in Mizoram
A meeting of the expert committee chaired by state health minister Dr R Lalthangliana on November 12 had pointed out that the campaign has significantly yielded positive results in reducing COVID-19 cases in the state.
AIZAWL:
Mizoram has witnessed a downward trend in Covid daily cases, which the state-level expert committee on COVID-19 management attributed to the ‘Wear-a-Mask’ campaign launched on October 11.
A meeting of the expert committee chaired by state health minister Dr R Lalthangliana on November 12 had pointed out that the campaign has significantly yielded positive results in reducing COVID-19 cases in the state.
The meeting also decided to extend the campaign till December 31, he said.
The expert committee said that Mizoram cannot remain complacent and negligent despite a dip in COVID-19 cases.
“Though single-day cases are falling, the positivity rate still continues to go up. As this is the current situation the state can’t remain complacent and negligent to COVID-19 containment measures,” the committee said in the meeting.
Citing that people have to take preventive or precautionary measures more intensively, the committee said that Mizoram is still at the number 4 warning level of WHO.
The committee suggested that congregational singing should continue to be banned in public gatherings like funeral and church services, among others.
The Mizoram government had earlier allowed re-opening of churches or places of worship in COVID-19 free villages and towns outside the Aizawl Municipal Corporation (AMC) area on August 21.
Churches were re-opened within the AMC area and other parts of the state including those towns and villages having COVID active cases on October 29.
However, congregational singing is not allowed in the church, funeral and other public gatherings
After registering a spike for months, Mizoram’s daily COVID-19 tally fell below 1000 cases since October 15.
The state has so far reported 1,28,604 COVID-19 cases and 459 fatalities.
A total of 387 cases were reported on November 14, with no new deaths, the health department informed.
The number of active cases as per the latest report stood at 5,851, while 12,2,494 lakh people have recovered from the infection.
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