Assam Covid-19 recovery rate 77%, but first patient still positive

Prabin Kalita | TNN | Apr 26, 2020, 22:50 IST

Assam health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma briefs media over Covid-19, in Guwahati on Sunday. (ANI photo)

GUWAHATI: Assam doctors cured and discharged eight more Covid-19 patients from hospitals on Sunday, taking the state’s recovery rate over 75% against 21.09% for the country, but the state’s first positive person has not reversed yet.
State health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that four each have been discharged from hospitals in Golaghat and Guwahati. Assam so far has 35 positive cases of which 27 have been discharged and one patient has died.
“With Sunday’s discharge, we have seven more patients to go, including the first patient, who is continuing treatment at Silchar Medical College because his swab samples are still showing positive results,” Sarma said.
The 52-year-old man from Karimganj had contracted the virus duing the Tablighi Jamaat congregation held at Nizamuddin Markaz in Delhi and was admitted in Silchar medical college and hospital on March 31. He is a cancer patient.
“For a state like Assam, the recovery rate of 77 per cent so far will perhaps be seen as an achievement for us,” Sarma said.
The state has conducted 7,616 sample tests so far in the six laboratories in the state and of these 35 tested positive and 209 results are still awaited with the remaining being negative.
Guwahati Medical College Hospital tested 3,655 samples followed by 1,396 at Assam Medical College and Hospital, Dibrugarh and 1,047 at Fakhruddin Ahmed Medical College Hospital, Barpeta.