9 COVID Care Centres to be opened in Tinsukia: DC Bhaskar Pegu

Our Correspondent

TINSUKIA: Deeply worried at the alarming increase of COVID positive cases in Tinsukia district, particularly in Tinsukia and Makum municipal areas, the Tinsukia district administration initiated a number of steps that are likely to prevent the further spread of the disease in the next fortnight.

Bhaskar Pegu, Deputy Commissioner of Tinsukia, in a press meet at the DC's conference hall on Tuesday told media persons that 9 COVID Care Centres with intake capacity of 900 would be opened across the district, including tea garden hospitals, that would enhance seat capacity to 1,500. Besides, a 20-bedded COVID ICU would be made functional at the Civil Hospital Tinsukia on August 17.

The administration also plans to undertake elaborate Rapid Antigen Test (RAT) on 4,000 persons per day in vulnerable areas in Tinsukia and is likely to extend testing in the entire district in the next 15 days with 28 swan teams being trained to carry out the exercise, Pegu said, adding that the positivity of COVID in Tinsukia district stands at 8.91per cent. He made a fervent appeal to the citizens of Tinsukia to come forward voluntarily for RAT. Meanwhile, 38 deaths have so far been recorded in the district with 3,420 patients having tested positive till filing of the report on Wednesday.

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