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ICMR-Regional Medical Research Centre for NE Region at Lahowal in Dibrugarh district has successfully isolated Covid-19 virus that will help in developing inactivated vaccine and has also found that all strains circulating in Assam is the same "A2a clade (a grouping that includes a common ancestor and all the descendants)", which is dominant across the world including India.
Seven more people were killed in floods and landslides across Assam, taking the death toll in the deluge and related incidents to 33, a government report said on Wednesday.
Assam health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that union home minister Amit Shah called him up to say that ICMR is seeing the rising trend of Covid-19 cases in Guwahati similar to that of Mumbai and Delhi.
A Dibrugarh couple on Tuesday donated Rs 21 lakh to Iskcon to build a temple in the eastern Assam town with the compensation they received after a long legal battle over their son's death in a boarding school nine years ago.
Floods on Tuesday claimed three more lives, two in Barpeta and one in Dibrugarh districts, taking the toll in the state to 27.A female rhino was also found dead at the Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary in Morigaon district.
Assam government on Tuesday said the Centre’s guidelines for Unlock 2.0 from July 1, which were announced on Monday, will not override the state’s lockdown rules in force for 14 days in Kamrup (Metro) since June 29 and for an indefinite period in other urban centres of the state since June 28.
