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Three of the four persons from Guwahati, who tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday, have no recent travel history, health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said.

โ€œFour persons tested positive for coronavirus in Guwahati on Thursday. Three of these patients do not have any recent travel history,โ€ minister Sarma told reporters in Guwahati on Friday.

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Sarma said with such cases coming to light, it can be concluded that there are high chances of Covid-19 presence in Guwahati.

โ€œI urge people having symptoms to contact health department,โ€ Sarma added.

Coronavirus cases count has gone up to 56 in Assam on Friday with three fresh cases reported from Cachar district.

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Health minister Sarma said the three cases were co-passengers of the returnee from Ajmer Sharif Dargah in Rajasthan who had tested positive for COVID-19 in Sillchar on Wednesday.

โ€œAlert ~ 3 more persons, who travelled in the bus from Rajasthan in which the Cachar dist #COVID19 + person travelled, have tested positive.

Total #COVID19 patients in Assam 56
Active cases 21
Discharged 34
Death 1,โ€ Sarma tweeted.

On Thursday, a total of eight casesโ€”four from Guwahati and four others from Cacharโ€“were reported in the state.

The four people from Cachar, who tested positive on Thursday, were also co-passengers of the returnee from Ajmer Sharif Dargah.

A bus carrying 42 passengers had arrived in Silchar from Ajmer. Samples of one of the passengers tested positive for COVID-19, following which certain areas were declared as containment zones, he said.

Subsequently, samples of four other persons were tested, results of which returned positive, Sarma had said.