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RT-PCR tests report to confirm COVID status of 7 Shillong returnees

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SHILLONG: Reliability of rapid tests confirming COVID-19 status has com under cloud when eight of the people who returned from Chennai in a special train on Friday night  first tested positive for COVID-19 in the rapid test conducted on them. Later, four of them were confirmed negative for COVID-19  in the RT-PCR test.

Confirming this, Health and Family Welfare Minister, AL Hek said on Saturday that altogether 12 people who arrived in the train, first tested positive in the rapid test conducted on them.

The people who were tested positive in the rapid test included four from Tura and one from Ri Bhoi district. However, all of them later tested negative when RT –PCR test was conducted on them.

Seven of those people who hail from Shillong, tested positive in rapid test and  their samples were taken for RT-PCR test and their results would come on Sunday.

Meghalaya Government at the moment is allowing over 8000 state residents to come back after they had remained  stranded in different parts of the country because of the continuing countrywide lockdown.

Around 1100 of them returned to the state in a special train from Chennai on Friday night

It may be mentioned that the second batch state citizens from the state consisting of 225 students from Gujarat are scheduled to reach Guwahati on Sunday.

 

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