Assam’s first Covid-19 patient cured and discharged from SMCH

SILCHAR: The first Covid-19 patient of Assam, Jamal Uddin has been cured and released from Silchar Medical College Hospital on Wednesday afternoon. He was released after three consecutive negative tests, said Assam health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma in his Tweets.
Another Covid-19 patient Matiur Tarapdar was also discharged from Mahendra Mohan Chaudhury Hospital, Guwahati after he was cured.
Now the number of active cases in Assam is 9, with total 44 positive cases so far, the minister added.
The 52-year old Jamal Uddin, a resident of Hasanpur near Srigauri in Karimganj district was tested positive on March 31 and was admitted to isolation ward of SMCH.
Jamal, a member of Tablighi Jamaat and a cancer patient went to Delhi for cancer treatment. On the sideline, he joined the religious gathering at a mosque in the Nizamuddin area of Delhi, which has been linked to several Covid-19 positive and death cased across the country. Jamal reached his Karimganj home on March 13 and went to SMCH for Covid-19 tests during the last week of March when he was suffering from severe fever, and came positive.
Meanwhile, with the lapse of 28 days since the last tested Covid-19 positive case and no report of any severe acute respiratory infections or influenza like illnesses, the Hailakandi district administration has lifted the containment and buffer zone tags from Borjurai village under the Hailakandi revenue circle with immediate effect.
In an order issued to this effect on Wednesday, district magistrate cum chairman, district disaster management authority, Keerthi Jalli stated that the withdrawal of containment zone and seven-km periphery buffer zone from Borjurai village has been done in view of completion of 28 days since the last tested positive case and no report of any severe acute respiratory infections or influenza like illnesses.
The order stated that the decision has been taken in compliance with the updated Containment Plan of the ministry of health and family welfare.
It further stated following the withdrawal of the containment zone and buffer zone tags from Borjurai, the village is 'subject to same restrictions as it exists in other parts of the district'.
Borjurai was placed under containment zone with a buffer zone of seven-km radius close to midnight of April 7 following the detection of a Covid-19 positive case. The 65-year-old Covid-19 infected patient later died at the Silchar Medical College and Hospital on April 10.