Guwahati, Feb 26: The Assam authorities on Friday introduced that its earlier order of suspending COVID-19 assessments at airports and railway stations has been stored in “abeyance” and such medical examinations at these locations will proceed. Earlier this month, the federal government had determined to discontinue obligatory COVID-19 testing at airports and railway stations from March 1, 2021, following a decline in new optimistic instances.
An order issued by Principal Secretary (Well being) Samir Sinha stated the sooner instruction of cancelling testing on arrival at airports and railway stations from the start of March has been stored in “abeyance”. The recent directive got here after a spike in coronavirus infections was witnessed in some states of the nation.
The COVID-19 screening and testing will proceed in any respect the six airports within the state and railway stations as per present protocols. Sinha additionally directed the district administrations and the built-in illness surveillance programme (IDSP) officers to make sure that contact tracing protocols are strictly adopted.
In the meantime, the state reported 30 recent coronavirus instances within the final 24 hours, taking the tally to 2,17,484. The loss of life toll remained at 1,091 as no new fatality because of the an infection was reported within the interval.
Assam at the moment has 276 energetic instances, whereas 2,14,770 individuals have recovered from the illness thus far. The state performed 68,20,414 pattern assessments for COVID- 19.
Altogether, 1,50,349 healthcare staff have acquired the primary dose of the COVID-19 vaccine and 27,743 have gotten the second vaccine photographs. A complete of 45, 458 frontline staff have acquired the primary dose of the vaccine thus far.
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