Assam to prohibit home quarantine for co-morbid COVID patients : CM

GUWAHATI: Himanta Biswa Sarma, chief minister of Assam, has directed the state health department that the COVID patients with comorbidity should not be allowed for home quarantine irrespective of their age on Friday.

CM Sarma has taken stocks of the COVID situation in the state in a review meeting at Janata Bhawan today with the health department.

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CM Sarma asserted that seeing the decreasing number of COVID cases and fatality rate the state will improve substantially in the upcoming few weeks.

Sarma has also instructed the health department to explore the option of funding private hospitals with interest-free loans so that they can purchase vaccines directly from manufacturers under 25 percent quota reserved for the private sector by the Central Government so that more people could get vaccinated in private hospitals as well.

CM Sarma has also reviewed the status of Paediatric ICUs, which are being set up at various government hospitals and functioning 13 oxygen plants in the state apart from the status of installation of 6 oxygen plants provided by the Central Government to the state.

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