In Manipur, 656 persons including five personnel of the Central Armed Police Force were confirmed as new COVID-19 positive cases during the last 24 hours. These cases were detected among the 4817 samples tested for COVID-19 and the positivity rate is 13.61 percent.<br />'' <br />''The Integrated Disease Surveillance Program (IDSP) Manipur has reported that nasopharyngeal swabs collected from 69 individuals have been confirmed as Delhi variants positive. Eighteen cases of Delta variant cases were also reported in Manipur earlier. On the other hand, 13 people died due to COVID-19 positive in the last 24 hours thus increasing the total fatality due to the pandemic to 1175.<br />'' <br />''<span style="color: #222222;">Meanwhile, 603 COVID-19 patients were discharged during the hours. The total number of recovered cases is 63809 and the total positive case 70954. The recovery rate is 89.93 percent. The active case stands at 5970. The number of doses of COVID-19 vaccine administered till yesterday is 682110 including 84631 second doses.</span><br />