Vikramaditya
Port Blair, Aug 03: Two more people died due to COVID-19 in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands on Monday, taking the death toll in the Union territory to 10.
A 65-year-old man, a resident of Bhatu Bashi died this morning at G B Pant Hospital, here, the officials said, adding that he was a diabetic patient. Another COVID19 patient who died today was a teacher, it is learnt.
The union territory has reported 830 COVID-19 cases till Monday evening. Today 96 people were tested positive out of them, seven were traveler and 89 were contacts. Today 21 people recovered.
Meanwhile, in view of the spike of COVID-19 cases, the South Andaman district administration has announced lockdown in the district from midnight of August 4 till August 11, officials said. An order issued by the District Magistrate South Andaman said all shops and establishments will remain closed from August 4 midnight till August 11 except for ration shops, milk, bakery, vegetable shops, meat shops, medical pharmacy stores, hardware shops, book shops and petrol pumps.
The South Andaman district administration also announced new containment zones in Dairy Farm, Junglighat, Garacharma, Bhatu Basti, Haddo, Prothrapur and Shore Point, an official said.
As per official figures at present there are 557 active cases while 263 people have already recovered.
