New Delhi: Minister of State for the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER) Jitendra Singh on Monday said that five out of the eight states in the North-East are corona-free now.
He said that those five states are - Sikkim, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur and Tripura. "Three states in the region - Assam, Meghalaya and Mizoram - are not corona-free but there have been no new positive cases in these states in the recent past," Singh said.
Singh said that the credit for the low incidence of cases in the North-east goes to the way the government of India under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given priority to the region's development in the past six years. "Even during this emergency, the way the air