Assam on high alert after 27 cases emerge in 72 hrs

    17-May-2020
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Guwahati, May 16
Assam has been put on high alert after 27 cases of the novel coronavirus were detected in the State in the last 72 hours.
All the 27 cases have been detected in Guwahati and the administration of Kamrup (Metro) district has declared several areas in the capital as containment zone.
On Saturday, Assam Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma took to twitter to announce 2 more coron-avirus positive cases in Guwahati. With the new cases, the total number of novel coronavirus cases has now increased to 91, he said.
Both the cases were related to a COVID-19 patient from Fancy Bazar area in Guwahati.
Himanta Biswa Sarma said that among the two new cases, one is a barber and another is a handcart puller. Yesterday, three novel coronavirus positive cases were detected in Guwahati. Among the three, one case was detected in Sarusajai stadium quarantine camp and another one is an indoor patient of Guwahati Medical College Hospital (GMCH) and one had migrated to West Bengal.
Assam has so far reported 91 novel coronavirus cases -- 34 in Kamrup (Metro), 11 in Cachar district, nine in Golaghat district, six each in Morigaon and Goalpara districts, five cases each in Dhubri, Bongaigaon districts, four in Nalbari district, three in Jorhat district, two each in Karimganj and Kamrup districts and one each in South Salmara, Lakhimpur, Hailakandi and Kokrajhar district.
Out of these 91 cases, two COVID-19 patients have died and 41 others have been discharged from hospitals. The State now has 44 active novel coronavirus cases. India Today