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Two strains of novel coronavirus have been acting in state—one that results in fast death and the other with mild effects, which heal with normal treatment, Assam health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said.
Assam's flood situation showed signs of improvement as the number of people affected came down to 3,72,471 from 3,81,320 on Friday thanks to no further rains. However, the death toll due to drowning increased to six after one more person died at Kampur in Nagoan district.
After breaching the 1,000-mark on Friday, Assam's count for Covid-19 cases and the number of recovered patients surged ahead on Saturday with the count reaching 1,015 cases.
All personnel of the armed forces and central paramilitary travelling to Assam on deployment will have to complete the mandatory quarantine period before joining duty. Again, those coming on leave to their residences in the state will have to follow the quarantine and testing protocols stipulated for the general public.
With the addition of the 8th government-run Covid-19 testing lab at Council of Scientific and Industrial Research's (CSIR) North East Institute of Science and Technology at Jorhat on Saturday and four more likely to be made operational soon, Assam plans to take it testing capability beyond 10,000 sample tests per day.
Following a halt in rain, Assam’s flood situation showed signs of improvement on Saturday in terms of decrease in number of affected people but the death toll due to drowning increased to six after one more person died at Kampur in Nagoan district.
Assam marked the completion of its first 60 days of Covid-19 pandemic on Friday by breaching the 1000-mark and reaching a tally of 1024 positive cases with an average growth of 17.06 cases per day.
Ahead of centre’s decision on possible extension of lockdown to phase five, Assam health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that with social distancing and wearing of face masks having grown into a habit among the people now, the state is ready to once again embrace normal life, though in a phased manner.
The death toll due to drowning in Assam on Friday climbed to five within a week since the first wave of flood struck, one more than the casualty due to Covid-19 in 60 days, as the deluge hit more than 80,000 population across seven districts in 24 hours taking the total affected population 3.81 lakh.
Assam is reeling from the double attack of Covid-19 and floods which have together claimed seven lives - four to the virus and three to the deluge - so far.
Assam is reeling under the double attack from Covid-19 and floods, which together have so far claimed seven lives—four to the virus and three to the deluge.
The premier technology institute, IIT-Guwahati, has been developing innovative solutions to address sanitation and precaution concerns amid the pandemic. The latest from the IIT-G stable are a low cost heat-based sanitizer trunk, injection mould for mass manufacturing of face shield, disinfectant tunnel, universal foot operated hand sanitization system and high-grade quality face shields.
Assam saw the biggest jump in the number of recovered cases on Wednesday with 25 patients getting discharged from Guwahati, Silchar and Jorhat even as 92 new cases were reported, pushing the total to 774.
Assam reported its first case of Covid-19 relapse on Wednesday when a woman from Golaghat, who was discharged from hospital after testing negative, go re-infected again. This has sparked fears of re-infections amid the growing number of positive cases in the state.
Assam’s flood situation further worsened on Wednesday resulting into death of a person in Goalpara district even as the affected population surged to 2.71 lakh in 11 districts out of which the number of people displaced from their homes to relief camps rose to 16,720.
Driven by the homecoming of thousands of people, Assam's Covid-19 count has increased to 643 with the addition of 95 news cases on Tuesday.
Two youths from Jorhat, who lost their jobs with a software company in Chennai during the lockdown, returned home on Saturday. The biggest takeaway of this marathon journey covering almost 3,000 km, has been their ride back to their home state overcoming hurdles and even running into a super storm.
Students of educational institutions, including Cotton University (CU), on Tuesday took back their luggages from the hostels, which have been designated as quarantine facilities by the Kamrup (Metropolitan) district administration, but they were "disappointed" at such a short notice.
Four repatriation flights are set to land in Assam by June 5, to bring back people from the northeast who had been stranded in Russia, Ukraine, Philippines and Kuwait.
The Assam government is set to reopen educational institutes for resuming the academic session by June 15. However, only students of Classes X and XII can avail of this opportunity for now.
Nearly two lakh people in Assam have been hit and about 9000 forced to take shelter in relief camps as the situation due to the first wave of floods worsened on Tuesday. More than 220 villages in seven affected districts have been inundated.
Driven by the homecoming of thousands, Assam’s Covid-19 count reached 643 following addition of 95 cases on Tuesday.
Assam cabinet on Tuesday approved ruthless implementation of quarantine protocol and no one arriving from outside the state by air, land or train will be allowed to go home without completing the quarantine period.
Nearly two lakh people in Assam have been hit and nearly 9000 of them have been forced to take shelter in relief camps as the situation due to the first wave of flood worsened on Tuesday. More than 220 villages in seven affected districts have been inundated.
The Kamrup (Metropolitan) district administration on Monday requisitioned all six hostels of the Cotton University (CU) and two private schools in the city for accommodating inter-state passengers,
Silchar Police arrested two persons who jumped quarantine in the district late on Sunday, a senior official said.
The Assam government wants to wrap up the process of receiving home-bound people stranded outside and their subsequent quarantine by June 30, so that from July it can shift its entire focus on managing the floods, which have already affected over than 30,000 people and displaced nearly 9,000.
Over 600 passengers in eight flights from Delhi, Chennai and Bangalore disembarked at the Lokapriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport here on the first day of the domestic air services which resumed on Monday. Another 511 in four flights landed in Imphal.
Assam registered a new single-day high of 134 Covid-19 positive cases on Monday, taking the states's total case count to 526 from from the overnight figure of 392 in less than 12 hours.
Assam registered a new single-day high of 134 Covid-19 positive cases on Monday, which has taken the total count past the 500-mark to reach 526 in less than 12 hours of an overnight count of 392 cases.
Among the five recoveries in the state on Monday who were discharged from hospitals is the 13-year-old girl, who had tested positive on May 14 after returning from Mumbai following a heart surgery. Her healthy mother, who had refused to leave her Covid-19 positive daughter and stayed back with her at the isolation ward at Guwahati Medical College and Hospital miraculously stayed negative through these 11 days.
Police on Monday arrested two persons allegedly involved in beating to death a labourer of Emami Limited’s Assam plant at Pacharia in Kamrup district. The deceased, Sanatan Deka (38), had started selling vegetables after his factory temporarily shut down due to the lockdown on Friday.
Assam government wants to wrap up the process of receiving the home-bound people of the state from outside and of their subsequent quarantine by June 30 so that from July it can shift its entire focus on managing the floods, which has already affected over than 30,000 people and displaced nearly 9,000 of them to relief camps.
Eight flights from Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore brought in 500 passengers to Guwahati while about 350 passengers flew out on Monday as domestic air services resumed.
Every air traveler arriving in Assam will be quarantined except those who declare their intentions to go back on the same day, pilots, flight crew members and maintenance staff and people on government duties as domestic air services resume from Monday.
Assam is contemplating to re-seal the inter-state borders from June 2 to check further flow of home-bound people by road as the state’s Covid-19 count surged towards the 400th mark after 32 fresh cases were added to overnight tally of 346, which has taken the total number of cases to 378 on Sunday.
After shifting from manual to automatic RNA extraction machines borrowed from various government agencies and universities to ramp up the testing capacity of its seven labs, Assam on Sunday surpassed Kerala in number of samples tested for Covid-19 .
The first wave of floods, which hit Assam amid the Covid-19 pandemic on Friday, has affected nearly 3,000 people in Lakhimpur and Barpeta districts.
Smaller airports in the northeast are staring at a space constraint as the country prepared for the resumption of domestic flight operations from Monday.
Amid the Covid-19 threat, several grand old mosques in Assam are going to stay away from offering community namaz on Eid which will be observed on Monday.
Assam health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has declared the “state is not safe now” after waves of infected people returning home triggered a massive spike of 70 Covid-19 positive cases on Saturday, increasing the number of cases to 329.
The birds are back, ready to fly again…” screamed the message from the official Twitter handle of regional director (NE region) of Airports Authority of India on Saturday as northeastern states prepare themselves with strict quarantine SOPs for every disembarking passenger when flight operations resume on May 25.
"Assam is not safe now," health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma declared after waves of infected people returning home triggered a massive spike of 70 Covid-19 positive cases on a single day on Saturday, which has increased the caseload to 329.
A day after the first Covid-19 patient was detected in Dibrugarh district, chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Friday visited the quarantine facilities in Dibrugarh town to take stock of the arrangements.
Assam’s Covid-19 count sprinted to 256 on Friday from overnight count of 210 following the highest single-day spike of 46 positive cases, sending health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma dashing to ramp up quarantine capacity by distributing the 14 days period between institutional facilities and homes and raise treatment capacity by adding new facilities.
Assam health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday said the state had stepped into the most difficult time after its citizens stranded in different states started arriving. Fourteen of these migrants have tested positive so far since May 5.
