State registers 5,699 fresh Covid cases
HT Bureau
GUWAHATI, May 26: The state has registered a total of 5,699 fresh Covid-19 positive cases on Wednesday, pushing the tally to 3,86,870, an official bulletin of National Health Mission (NHM) said here.
90 more patients succumbed to their Covid-19 infections in the state, the bulletin said.
The total deaths in the state now stands at 3,005.
Of the fresh deaths, 18 have been reported from Kamrup (Metro), followed by 9 in Tinsukia, 8 each in Cachar, Dibrugarh and Kamrup Rural and 6 in Barpeta.
The positivity rate is 4.91% (1,16,119 tests done).
Of the fresh cases, 670 have been detected from Kamrup (Metro), followed by Dibrugarh (484), Cachar (473), Nagaon (417) and Tinsukia (368).
A total of 6,266 patients were discharged on Wednesday. With this the active caseload of the state now stands at 52,884.
2 more deaths in Biswanath
Two more Covid positive patients succumbed to their infection at Sootea area in Biswanath district on Wednesday. One Nurjamal Haque, a resident of No 1 Adhabheti, breathed his last on Wednesday.
Another Phuleswari Sabar, a resident of Bukubhanga, Nagsankar under Sootea PS succumbed to her infection on Tuesday night.
One more dies in Nagaon
461 fresh Covid positive cases were registered in Nagaon district on Wednesday, taking the total cumulative active Covid cases to 4,748. One more patient succumbed to his infection on Wednesday.
Of fresh cases, 124 people were immediately admitted to Nagaon Covid hospital as well as other Covid Care Centres while the rest were put in home isolation.
Rapid Antigen Test was conducted on 5,503 people while RT-PCR test was conducted on 77 swab samples on Wednesday.
Orphanage declared containment zone in Jorhat
The Da Gaon Shishu Kalyan Kendra, an orphanage in Jorhat district has been declared a containment zone by the district administration after six out of 15 children tested positive for Covid-19.
However, the six children, who sleep together with the others divided in two rooms with four mothers who take care of them, are yet to be isolated.
Ramen Saikia, who is closely associated with the governing body of the Anath Ashram has asked the district administration to supply food as the food supply will dry up with the area now out of bounds for people.
Jorhat deputy commissioner Ashok Kumar Barman has directed the CO to look into the matter immediately.
Saikia said that food for the children mostly comes from people who host birthday parties or anniversaries and feed all the inmates, with the leftover items being used as food for a few days more.
“These kinds of events were being held right upto the end despite asking them not to, due to which the Covid-19 infection may have spread to the children from someone who had come from outside,” a governing body source said.
Ever since the orphanage was established in 1975, there has been no system of continuous food supply to the orphanage, with rich donors or a group of individuals doing the needful.
At present the only sources are those who host parties and a couple of voluntary donors.