18-day-old infant & his parents infected with COVID-19 in Hailakandi

July 23: A 18-day-old infant was detected COVID-19 positive along with his parents in South Assam’s Hailakandi district on Wednesday. Residents of Tupkhana on the outskirts of Hailakandi town, the three-member family afflicted with the disease has been shifted from the Hindustan Paper Corporation’s COVID Care Centre to the SK Roy designated COVID Civil Hospital.

Superintendent, SK Roy designated COVID Civil Hospital, Dr.Sudip Kumar Chakrabarty informed that the condition of the caesarean baby is stable and breast feeding is being done at regular intervals. He disclosed that both mother and baby are being nursed and kept at a separate enclosure in the COVID-19 ward.