49 detected +ve on Monday in Cachar as per 1st slot, numbers likely to rise at night

July 27: On Monday, 49 persons were tested COVID-19 positive as per the information available in the 1st slot of swab results and Rapid Antigen Test (RAT) in Cachar district. 11 persons tested positive as per the swab results of RTPCR test made available in the 1st slot, whereas 38 were detected positive in Rapid Antigen Test. This is not the final figure of coronavirus positive cases on Monday because results of more slots were awaited and would be available at night. This was disclosed by Suman Choudhury, District Media Expert during routine press briefing on Monday.

Some of those who tested positive in the 1st slot are Rajat Deb (45) from Koomber Tea Estate, Nobendu Kr. Adhikari (53) from Premtola, Abhra Kanti Adhikari (13) from Premtola & Bappi Sutradhar (33) from MahadevBari, Kanakpur Part-II. They are asymptomatic but were infected after they came in direct contact with high risk lab confirmed cases. Sushmita Shil (19) from Rangirkhari tested positive during pre-natal covid screening.

Further, Sandhya Nath (45) from Janatha Lane, Meherpur, Rajib Roy (45) from Janata Lane, New Market, Subrata Paul (45) from Padmanagar, Bilpar, Gautam Deb (43) from Fatak Bazar also tested positive on Monday. All of them came in contact with positive case (Covid screening).

Motilal Baishya (75) of Purnapaul Road was also detected as coronavirus positive. He is symptomatic. His source of infection was mentioned as from Covid screening. MR Nayak (HC) (40) from 134 BM, BSF, Mashimpur was also tested as COVID-19 positive.

The District Media Expert further said that there is a difference between the cases detected earlier and the present cases in the district. He said, “Earlier maximum positive cases were detected from the institutional quarantine facilities and most of them had travel history. But now as the quarantine guidelines have been considerable relaxed by the government, many positive cases are now found at the community level. So most of the positive cases now are found amongst persons who are at home quarantine.”

Saying so, Mr.Choudhury informed that, as maximum of the positive cases now are from home quarantined people, so naturally it takes more time to bring these positive patients to the hospitals as their houses remains scattered throughout the district. He also informed that from now onwards, the health department is allowing some positive patients to go for home isolation. In that case, those patients were required to fulfill certain conditions in writing as laid down by the Government of Assam. The 1st patient to be allowed home isolation in Cachar district is cardiologist Dr. P.C. Sharma.

He further informed that the death rate is quite insignificant in Cachar. many a times, even critical patients were successfully treated and cured at SMCH.  Suman Choudhury also stated that plasma therapy would start very soon over here. A board has been formed at SMCH in this regard. The State Government has appointed Suman Choudhury as the District Nodal Officer for Plasma Therapy. He appealed to the symptomatic patients to donate their plasma although he mentioned that the number of symptomatic patients in Cachar is less.