Biggest single-day spike of 89 +ve cases in Hailakandi on Wednesday

August 12: Hailakandi district witnessed a total of 2,843 tests conducted under Rapid Antigen Test (RAT) on Wednesday, the highest so far on a single day with detection of 89 fresh COVID-19 positive cases, taking the district’s total tally to 1,476.

Health authorities here disclosed that of the 2,843 RAT tests carried out under the state’s special drive for mission 100k, 86 have been found positive. 186 RAT tests were conducted at Dholeswari Point with 14 tested positive, 720 at Katlicherra BPHC with 17 positive cases, 633 tests conducted at Lala BPHC with eight cases, 636 at Algapur BPHC with 14 cases, 260 at Kalinagar BPHC with detection of 16 cases, 306 at Urban Centres with 14 cases and 102 tests conducted at SK Roy designated COVID Civil Hospital with two positive cases.

Under the special drive, 40-45 mobile medical teams fanned out to different parts of the district on Wednesday.
Altogether 613 cases have been found positive under RAT with more than 50 per cent without travel history. 1,053 persons on being cured have been released from hospitals. There are 415 active cases.

Two COVID-19 positive patients named Mangoli Rani Das, 53, and Foijul Haque Barbhuiya, 65, breathed their last at Silchar Medical College and Hospital. Six deaths at SMC&H have been declared as ‘non-COVID’ by the State level Death Audit Board. 49 persons are currently under facility quarantine centres while 6,450 under home quarantine. Of the 15,868 swab samples taken, 13,898 turned out to be negative. Swab results of 185 persons are awaited.