One fresh COVID-19 positive case in Hailakandi, taking district tally to 47

June 4: One fresh COVID-19 case has been detected in Hailakandi district on Thursday, taking the tally to 47. One person succumbed to COVID-19 infection. Health authorities here informed that one Habizur Rahman Barbhuiya, 21 with travel history to Mumbai arrived here from Guwahati after seven days quarantine and was under institutional quarantine at Polytechnic at Katlicherra.

His swab sample taken at Guwahati has tested positive. “As the second swab sample of the youth sent to the Silchar Medical College and Hospital is awaited, and as a precautionary measure he has been shifted to the isolation ward of SK Roy Civil Hospital,” said a health official on condition of anonymity. With this, 26 persons infected with the disease are admitted in the isolation wards of the hospital. Five infected persons have been referred to the Silchar Medical College and Hospital.

Of the total 1,956 swab samples taken, 1,498 tested negative while the results of 405 are awaited. 673 persons are under institutional quarantine centres while 456 are under home quarantine. 114 persons were put under facility quarantine centres while 94 were sent to home quarantine on Thursday. There are 18 facility quarantine centres with a bed capacity of 1,167.