GUWAHATI: Detection of a 16-year-old girl from Bongaigaon district with COVID-19 infection has raised the alarm in Assam given that the girl was under home quarantine along with five other family members.
She was a secondary contact of another COVID-19 patient Zamaluddin who had attended Tablighi Jamaat in Nizamuddin in New Delhi.
“We are concerned because barring the 16-year-old girl who was a granddaughter of another COVD patient, was under home quarantine with five other family members. She had come in contact with the COVID-19 positive person on March 23 last. All other COVID-19 positive cases in the state were detected when they were under institutional quarantine,” Health Minister, Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma said.
He said Deputy Commissioner of Bongaigaon had been asked to thoroughly investigate the case to know if she came in contact with any person outside the family during her home quarantine period. The Health Minister is going to Bongaigaon on Thursday to look into the matter
Meanwhile, the tag of ‘containment zone’ is being removed from Spanish Garden apartment on R G Baruah Road in the city on Thursday after COVID-19 tests conducted on its residents gave negative results.
The apartment was made a containment zone after one of its residents, Manish Tibrewal had tested COVID-19 positive earlier this month. The person later recovered and discharged from hospital.
State Health Minister, Himanta Biswa Sarma informed that two more COVID-19 patients –Hazrat Ali (35) of Dhubri and Samirul Haque (22) of Goalpara – I being discharged from Mohendra Mohan Choudhury Civil Hospital in Guwahati on Thursday morning.
After the discharge of these two patients total seven active COVID-19 patients will remain under treatment in various hospitals in the state which so far detected 37 COVID-19 positive cases. One patient died earlier.