Assam reports slight decline in Covid cases

GUWAHATI: Assam reported a slight decline in daily Covid-19 numbers on Friday as it recorded 5,436 fresh cases with a positivity rate of 4.42% on Friday. At the same time, 80 people lost their lives to the virus.
The positivity percentage was 4.78 on Thursday after conducting 1,19,441 tests and 4.91 on Wednesday after conducting 116119 tests. A total of 5,704 positive cases were detected on Thursday while 5,699 cases were detected on Wednesday.
“5 lakh people in Kamrup (Metro) have been vaccinated so far out of the target of 12 lakh,” said CM Himanta Biswa Sarma.
Likewise, direction is given to conduct COVID inoculation at a fast pace in cities like Dibrugarh, Tinsukia etc where positivity rate is high,” chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Friday, exuding confidence that COVID positivity rate and death rate would soon come down in the state.
The state has been able to cut down the positivity rate to below 5% but the number of fatalities has gone up significantly. Assam is reporting over 80 deaths daily due to Covid for the last four days, authorities said.
Sarma also visited Sarusajai Sports Complex in the city and took stock of the ongoing construction of the 300-bed COVID hospital being set up by Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) there.
“The Assam government had signed an MoU with DRDO to set up a 300-bed COVID hospital with 100 ICU beds and 200 beds with oxygen facility. DRDO is expected to hand over the facility to the state government in the first week of June,” Sarma said.