<p>Arunachal Pradesh reported its fourth COVID-19 case after a 12-year-old student, who recently returned to the state from Delhi in a bus, tested positive for the disease, a senior official said on Sunday.</p>.<p>The boy had returned to the state on May 25 along with a group of students and was placed under institutional quarantine, he said.</p>.<p>"The student, who hails from Upper Siang district, is asymptomatic and was housed in a COVID-19 care centre in Yinkiong, the district headquarters. His test reports arrived on Saturday night from the Regional Medical Research Centre at Dibrugarh in Assam," state Health Secretary P Parthiban said.</p>.<p>The swab samples of the other people who were on the bus with the boy have been sent for tests and the results are awaited, the health secretary said.</p>.<p>This is the third case reported in the state in a span of a week.</p>.<p>Earlier, on May 24, a 30-year-old Delhi returnee was diagnosed with the disease, almost a month after Arunachal Pradesh was declared coronavirus-free.</p>.<p>A 19-year-old student, who recently returned to the state from Chennai in a Shramik Special train, had tested positive for the disease on May 27.</p>.<p>The first patient in the northeastern state, a 31- year-old man from Lohit district, was discharged from a hospital in Tezu on April 16 following his recovery.</p>.<p>Meanwhile, the state health department said that a batch of 260 samples will be sent to Delhi during the day for tests.</p>.<p>The state Cabinet had on Friday decided to outsource COVID-19 testing to clear the backlogs in the laboratories.</p>.<p>The results of 1,334 samples from the state are awaited so far, of the total 8,016 collected till Saturday.</p>
<p>Arunachal Pradesh reported its fourth COVID-19 case after a 12-year-old student, who recently returned to the state from Delhi in a bus, tested positive for the disease, a senior official said on Sunday.</p>.<p>The boy had returned to the state on May 25 along with a group of students and was placed under institutional quarantine, he said.</p>.<p>"The student, who hails from Upper Siang district, is asymptomatic and was housed in a COVID-19 care centre in Yinkiong, the district headquarters. His test reports arrived on Saturday night from the Regional Medical Research Centre at Dibrugarh in Assam," state Health Secretary P Parthiban said.</p>.<p>The swab samples of the other people who were on the bus with the boy have been sent for tests and the results are awaited, the health secretary said.</p>.<p>This is the third case reported in the state in a span of a week.</p>.<p>Earlier, on May 24, a 30-year-old Delhi returnee was diagnosed with the disease, almost a month after Arunachal Pradesh was declared coronavirus-free.</p>.<p>A 19-year-old student, who recently returned to the state from Chennai in a Shramik Special train, had tested positive for the disease on May 27.</p>.<p>The first patient in the northeastern state, a 31- year-old man from Lohit district, was discharged from a hospital in Tezu on April 16 following his recovery.</p>.<p>Meanwhile, the state health department said that a batch of 260 samples will be sent to Delhi during the day for tests.</p>.<p>The state Cabinet had on Friday decided to outsource COVID-19 testing to clear the backlogs in the laboratories.</p>.<p>The results of 1,334 samples from the state are awaited so far, of the total 8,016 collected till Saturday.</p>