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GUWAHATI: Assamese Singer Zublee Baruah tested positive for COVID-19 on April 24.
Taking to her social media handle the singer wrote, I have been tested COVID-19 positive. Don t really have definite symptoms. Just a lil cold, Also as I had performed among a huge crowd, so tested just to be sure, moreover didn t at all wanted to infect anybody. I am fine as of now. Felling a lil weak though, with a mild headache since morning. All those who have met me in the last 6-7 days please get yourself tested. So friends please take all precautionary measures & stay protected. Anyone anytime can be infected, just don t panic, get yourself tested & do the needful. Need your blessings to recover.
GUWAHATI: The Assam health department has asked the respective district authorities to explore the possibilities of turning hotels near hospitals into observation centres to accommodate the growing number of asymptomatic patients.The Assam health department has asked the respective district authorities to explore the possibilities of turning hotels near hospitals into observation centres to accommodate the growing number of asymptomatic patients.
The health department is looking to give better facilities to patients with round-the-clock monitoring of their health, assisted by ambulance facilities, which is not always feasible while in home isolation.
Private hospitals in Guwahati are likely to tie up with their nearby hotels by this week, considering the rush of Covid patients to hospitals in Kamrup (Metropolitan) district, where maximum new positive cases are being detected during the second wave of the virus. The patients, except for those from below poverty line (BPL) families
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GUWAHATI: Dispur has swung into action to deal with the fresh wave of COVID-19 infections in the State.
Health & Family Welfare Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma while speaking to reporters on Sunday said that the State had recorded 876 COVID-19 positive cases on Saturday and thus it is time for the government to take measures to keep the situation under control.
Sarma, who visited the Mahendra Mohan Choudhury Hospital (MMCH) at Pan Bazar on Sunday afternoon, said the hospital would be converted into a full-fledged Covid hospital from Tuesday. He said barring the maternity ward patients of all other departments in MMCH would be shifted to the Gauhati Medical College & Hospital (GMCH).
GUWAHATI: Covid-infected patients, who do not need hospitalization and are asymptomatic, are occupying a large chunk of the hospital beds in Assam. Unless the government quarantine facilities are revamped at the earliest, treatment of non-Covid patients may soon be hit.
The state government had closed down the quarantine facilities as the Covid situation had improved remarkably towards the end of 2020. The second wave has thrown up concerns about the occupancy of hospital beds by asymptomatic Covid patients, who don’t have adequate and safe home isolation facilities.
Executive director, Assam National Health Mission, Dr Manoj Choudhury, told TOI on Saturday that an estimated 60-70% of the admitted Covid cases at the Gauhati Medical College Hospital are asymptomatic. “Some cases may be mildly symptomatic but we have seen that a greater percentage of the hostilized Covid cases are asymptomatic this time,” he said.