Assam registers 22nd death due to COVID-19

July 8: On Wednesday, news came in about death of another COVID-19 patient. Sharing this information, State Health Minister, Himanta Biswa Sarma in a tweet wrote, “Sorry to inform that we lost a very young Monika Bhumij (19) to #COVID19. She had severe anemia and sepsis and was in the ICU of Jorhat Medical College after she was referred from Sivasagar. Doctors did their best but unfortunately we couldn’t save her.”

Earlier during the day, the State Health Minister tweeted information about 5 more death’s related to COVID-19.