Passengers arriving in Assam now to be quarantined for 10 days

July 29: From now onwards, quarantined period for passengers arriving in the state of Assam from outside has been reduced to 10 days inclusive of days spent in institutional or hotel quarantine as well as home quarantine. The earlier protocol mandated that passengers arriving in Assam should undergo a combined institutional quarantine / home quarantine of 14 days. The new guideline reducing the quarantine period from 14 to 10 days was issued by Kumar Sanjay Krishna, Chief Secretary of Assam.

As forinstance, if a passenger spends initial 2 days in a hotel / institutional quarantine, then he/ she shall have to spend the remaining duration of 8 days in home quarantine. Similarly, if any passenger directly proceeds for home quarantine, the he/ she shall spend 10 days in home quarantine.

However, if the RT-PCR test result of such passengers turns out positive in the interim, steps will be taken as per standard procedure.

Earlier on 24 July, the state government amended the discharge protocol of COVID-19 patients and mandated that there shall be mandatory 7 days home quarantine for the discharged patients, with active surveillance by the Health Workers