Summary:
Eight north-eastern States share India's around 5,500 km borders with five countries, including China (1,300 km), but the northeastern region's main worry lies over 1,880 km borders with Bangladesh and 1,643 km with Myanmar. The fear of north-eastern States has deepened after Bangladesh reported more than 140 coronavirus death and over 5,000 infections. While the BSF guards the Bangladesh border, the border with Myanmar is secured by Assam Rifles. Three hill districts of Manipur — Tengnoupal, Chandel and Churachandpur — share borders with Myanmar which are extremely porous. While no positive novel coronavirus case was reported from Sikkim, the other seven northeastern states have so far reported 55 coronavirus positive cases, including Nagaland's lone case..