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Five persons expired due to COVID-19 infection during the past 24 hours thus increasing the total fatality due to the pandemic in the state to 144 in Manipur.
On the other hand, 262 persons including seven personnel from the Central Armed Police Forces were confirmed as new COVID-19 positive cases in the past 24 hours taking the total count of positive cases so far to 17,424.
Among the new cases, 250 persons are locals and do not have travel history.
Two hundred persons were discharged in the past 24 hours in the state and the recovery rate has improved to 74.93 per cent.
So far, Manipur has recorded total recovered and discharged cases of 13,057 while the number of active cases is 4,223.