With 31 more Covid-19 +ve cases, day’s total in Cachar rises to 108 on Thursday

April 29: The District Health Department of Cachar updated the Covid-19 data of Thursday at 10.30 PM. As per the latest data, 31 more persons were detected as coronavirus positive during the day. With this, a total of 108 persons were found positive in the district on 29 April. Earlier, at 7 PM, it was informed that 77 persons were found positive. With this, the number of active cases in Cachar has now gone up to 555. It needs mention here that the total number of positive cases detected on Wednesday was 119.

As per the updated data, a total of 1,775 Rapid Antigen Tests (RAT) were done, out of which, a total of 70 persons were found positive, whereas 38 more were detected positive in RT-PCR Test. This was informed by Dr. Ibrahim Ali Ahmed, District Surveillance Officer (DSO), IDSP, Cachar on Thursday night.With this, the district tally of coronavirus cases has gone upto 12,647. Again, 11,948 patients till now were cured and discharged.

Apart from This Dr. Ibrahim Ali Ahmed informed that out of the 555 active patients, 65 of them are admitted at SMCH, 22 in MH, 22 at SMDCH, 26 at Green Heals Pvt Hospital, 02 at CRPF Doyapur and 06 at Gracewell Nursing Home. Further, 412 patients are in home isolation.

On Thursday, Amal Das (50) of Ashram Road, Silchar was admitted at Silchar Medical College & Hospital (SMCH) on 25 April. The patient was from Valley Hospital in a critical state with diagnosis of septic shock, CLD with pneumonia and COVID positivity. The patient was critical at the time of admission and had to be incubated the next day. However, the condition of the patient did not improve and finally, he died at 1.15 PM on 29 April, 2021.

During the day, another patient Sandhya Bhattacharjee (84) of Athal Basti in Cachar was admitted at 9 AM at SMCH. The patient was a diabetic and hypertensive came with chest pain. The patient was diagnosed as Acute coronary syndrome and on admission patient turned out to be RAT positive and was so shifted to Covid ICU as her condition turned out to be very critical. However, the patient suddenly developed cardiac arrest in ICU. CPR and resuscitation was tried, but the patient expired with 45 minutes of arrival at the ICU of SMCH at 10.45 AM on 29 April.