Just In: Assam Reports another COVID-19 Case, Tally Rises to 43

Goalpara, May 5, 2020:

Assam Health and Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has announced that yet another person, a resident of Goalpara district, has tested positive for the Covid-19. The number of cases in the state has now risen to 43.

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Sarma, who altered about the development via Twitter assured that "there is no need to fear" since the latest case has been reported from a "containment zone." According to the Assam Health Department, the number active cases is now 10. While one patient from Hailakandi died from the disease, 32 patients have been discharged. Additionally, one man from Nagaland's Dimapur who was undergoing treatment at the Gauhati Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) was also released on May 1.

Apart from Assam, cases are also rising at a rapid rate in the state of Tripura, which has caused the number of cases on the Northeast to spike up exponentially.

Yesterday, 13 more cases of the COVID-19 were detected in Tripura, announced the State’s Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb. With this, the state’s tally of coronavirus cases rose to 29; while two patients have been discharged, twenty seven cases remain ‘active’. In Tripura, altogether 128 people are in facility quarantine whereas 572 people are in home quarantine. 5,611 samples have been collected and 5,394 have been tested.

Mizoram state, meanwhile, has become the latest in the Northeast to become free from the coronavirus. After a prolonged battle with the disease, the first and only Covid-19 positive case in the state of Mizoram has made a recovery and the state has now officially been declared ‘corona free’. He was undergoing treatment at the Zoram Medical College in Falkawn near the state capital Aizawl.

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After taking samples on 4 consecutive days, which were all tested at the Viral Research and Diagnostic Laboratory in Silchar Medical College, the Health Minister of Mizoram Dr R Lalthangliana last night declared all samples had returned ‘negative’.

Mizoram Chief Secretary, Lalnunmawia Chuaungo, told Inside Northeast that his results had been declared on May 3. “Thus, when the result came back and it was declared that it was negative, we could say that Mizoram has indeed become free from the clutches of the coronavirus”, he said.

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