<span style="color: #222222;">State Health and Family Welfare Minister S. Pangnyu Phom in a tweet said, five cases were detected from Mokokchung, three in Peren and two each in Dimapur, Kiphire and Kohima. He also informed that 20 positive patients have recovered. They include six each in Kohima and Mokokchung, five from Dimapur and three from Tuensang.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">So far, 11,458 have recovered while 243 are active patients. State's recovery rate also improved to 96.2 per cent.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Demise of an infected patient in Mokokchung has increased the death toll to 79, out of which 10 had comorbid conditions and 131 patients have migrated to other states.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Meanwhile, Nagaland Health and Family Welfare Department has asked all persons coming to the state, either Indian or Foreign nationals, after the 20th of December to report to the respective District Task Force, DTF on COVID-19 for compulsory testing, in view of the emergence of a new variant strain of COVID-19 from United Kingdom.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Informing this in a release, Principal Director of Health and Family Welfare Dr Vizolie Suokhrie said, those arriving after the issue of this circular are to self-declare at the point of entry, inform the DTF and self-isolate for necessary standard testing protocols.</span><br />''