AGARTALA, June 19 (TIWN): Tripura COVID-19 positive cases have raised to 1159 and total recovered patients are 639. Institutional quarantine has been made mandatory for them who came from abroad. 134 stranded people have returned Tripura from Bangladesh today via Akhaura Checkpost. As per Tripura Govt’s guidelines, all of them to be gone through COVID-19 tests and to stay in Institutional quarantine till tests’ results come. In Camper Bazar street centre, the arrived persons have been quarantined.

 Law Minister Ratanlal Nath has claimed that Tripura’s testing is at higher rate than the national testing rate and the situation is also developing a lot here in compare to the many other States. 

He also asserted that Tripura’s situation is improving in fastest manner, but also suggested people not to break lockdown protocols for that.

The active cases status in Northeast is – Arunachal Pradesh : 92.30%, Assam: 47.63%, Manipur : 80.13%, Mizoram : 99.48%, Sikkim : 92.64%, Meghalaya: 38.63%, Nagaland: 50.28%, Tripura : 59.41%.