TURA: West Garo Hills Deputy Commissioner, Ram Singh on Friday informed that all primary contacts of the Bholarbitha random sampling case including those of the Dadenggre CHC case have tested negative.
A resident from Bholarbhita in the plain belt region of West Garo Hills was found to be positive for the virus during a recent random testing. The person who was asymptomatic has since been sent to the Corona care Centre. His family and neighbours were earlier tested and found negative. According to the Deputy Commissioner, the samples of all other primary contacts of the patient also turned out to be negative on Friday.
With regard to the Dadenggre CHC case, a person from Phulbari working in the malaria testing centre was tested positive for the virus also during random testing. While the samples taken from his family were earlier found to be negative, the results of around 50 other samples taken from Dadenggre CHC were awaited. On Friday, it was found that all the samples taken were negative.
The Deputy Commissioner also informed that the CHC has been sanitized and will continue to function normally.
