Assam’s Dhemaji district registered 26 new COVID-19 cases in a single day spike on Thursday.
Dhemaji joint director of Health Services, Dr Krishna Khemprai informed that the district has recorded 113 active COVID-19 cases so far, while it has discharged 358 coronavirus patients from different hospitals.
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No death caused by COVID-19 infection has been registered in the district so far.
Dr Khemprai further informed that his department on Thursday launched ‘Rapid Antigen Test for COVID-19’ at community level, and said that it would be continued for more a few weeks.
As such, the health staff tested altogether 745 swab samples on the day, out of which 26 found coronavirus positive.
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The Health department has set up three testing centers in flood-raved Jonai sub-division – two at Jonaibazar and another at Simenchapori.
It has performed 188 swab tests on the first day thereby detected six positive cases.
Jonai SDM& HO Dr Kishore Kumar informed that his staff will conduct more tests for the rural people.
He did not rule out detection of more COVID-19 cases in the sub-division.