Amid the rise in COVID-19 cases, the Assam government made a seven-day home quarantine mandatory for people travelling to the state from others states. The state government in a notification said, “All passengers arriving by flights and trains from outside the state will have to undergo compulsorily home quarantine for seven days, even if the result of the COVID test undergone on arrival is negative.”
Government officials, those travelling for medical reasons and people visiting the state in connection with bereavements will be exempted from it, Assam Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma informed.
Taking to Twitter Sarma wrote, “For all people travelling to Assam, a 7-day home quarantine is being mandatory, in addition to the testing. Government officials and those travelling for medical reasons and people with bereavement cases shall be exempted,” he tweeted.
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For all people traveling to Assam a 7-day home quarantine is being mandatory, in addition to the testing. Government officials and those traveling for medical reasons, and people with bereavement cases shall be exempted.
COVID Appropriate Behaviour
— Himanta Biswa Sarma (@himantabiswa) April 21, 2021
“We’re ramping up COVID19 testing facilities by creating a screening centre in every ward of Guwahati City so that people can get access to RT-PCR or Rapid Antigen test without any hassle,” the Assam minister tweeted.
“In case, the daily case rate in Guwahati touches 1,000, the Kamrup Metropolitan district administration has been authorised to close educational institutions and hostels,” he added.
Source: dnaindia.com