Assam Releases COVID-19 Patient from Sonapur, 15 Active Cases Left

Dispur, April 20, 2020:

Another COVID-19 patient in Assam has been released, taking the total number of cured/discharged patients to 18. Now, 15 active cases of the contagion remain in the state; one person has died so far due to complications from the virus.

The man, Hazrat Ali has been discharged today from Sonapur Civil Hospital, after his two successive tests yielded a 'negative' result.

Yesterday, 4 patients were released from the Mahendra Mohan Choudhury Hospital. Manish Tibriwal, the businessman from Guwahati who is the city’s lone case of the virus, was also discharged after making a recovery. A day earlier, three patients were discharged from the same hospital. On April 17, four patients were released from the Golaghat Civil Hospital in the COVID-19 “red zone” district.

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Note: Apart from Golaghat, the other red-zone districts are Nalbari, Dhubri, Goalpara, and Morigaon.

Earlier, 2 from Sonapur District Hospital and 3 from Goalpara Civil Hospital were released as they had tested COVID19 negative. The state has so far reported a single death due to complications from the virus.

It is pertinent to mention here that Northeast India has also reported many cases of the virus. The tally is as follows:

Assam: 34

Meghalaya: 11

Mizoram: 1

Manipur: 2

Nagaland: 1

Tripura: 2

Arunachal Pradesh: 1

Assam Finance and Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has announced that 4 people from the State of Uttar Pradesh, who had attented the Tablighi Jamaat congregation in national capital New Delhi, are now undergoing treatment in Assam. Of the cases that have been reported in Assam so far, the ages range from 18 to 71. Most of the cases have been reported in the age-range from 50-59.

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Himanta Biswa Sarma also said that out of 34 cases, 32 cases are related to the Tablighi Jamaat congregation in Assam.

Out of the cases, 82% of the cases are “silent carriers”, Sarma further said. 20% had fever, 11% had cough, and 7% had sore throat condition, the biggest signifier of the COVID-19 sickness. Among the cases, only one, the first case detected in the Karimganj district, has a co-morbid condition, that is, cancer.

At the same time, with the inclusion of a latest lab in Tezpur, the number of labs has risen to 6.

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