For the first time in the two year stretch of the pandemic, the Gauhati Medical College & Hospital(GMCH) records zero cases. Amid the declining number of cases, the  GMCH was never downright free of the admission of new Covid patients.

The principal cum chief Superintendent of the college, Dr. Achyut Baishya, affirmed that there were few cases reported in the the difunctional Kalapahar Covid Care Facility. The facility was under the command of GMCH. The cases were purported last year, when the second wave was abiding and the third wave hit the state.

Baishya quoted, “We discharged a baby from the pediatric ICU on Friday, and today there was no Covid case in GMCH. The baby turned Covid negative on Friday morning. For the first time, we spent a day without a single Covid patient at GMCH.”

He added that by Thursday the number was reduced to two.  “An elderly Covid patient was shifted to a hospital ward from the ICU on Thursday and got discharged by  night,” he concluded. Over 10,000 patients were confabulated in GMCH and other health care facilities since the first wave of Covid.

According to the Health Department Officials, the number of patients being treated in hospitals is less than 50. They also stated that on Friday, the number of active cases in the state was 996 and the recovery rate increased positively to 98.77%. According to the reports, Assam registered the first case on March 31, 2020.

Assam National Health Mission Director(NHM), Dr. Lakshmanan, reported that only 45 Covid patients were being confabulated in different hospitals in the state at present. In the Urban district, the test positivity rate has been around 1%.

The NHM Director concluded by saying, “The Covid situation has significantly improved. At present only eight Covid patients are on ventilation support and that, too, because of other complications related to Covid. However, we are keeping an alert.”