{"id":126368,"date":"2020-05-28T02:11:48","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T20:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=126368"},"modified":"2020-05-28T02:11:48","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T20:41:48","slug":"32-fresh-covid-19-cases-in-assam-total-rises-to-714","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/05\/28\/32-fresh-covid-19-cases-in-assam-total-rises-to-714\/","title":{"rendered":"32 fresh Covid-19 cases in Assam, total rises to 714"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<strong>GUWAHATI, May 27:<\/strong> The number of coronavirus cases crossed the 700-mark in Assam on Wednesday after 32 more people tested positive for the disease, state Health and Family Welfare Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said.<br \/>\nWith these new patients, including a resident of Kamrup (Metro) who recently returned to the state capital from Ahmedabad by plane, the number of Covid-19 cases rose to 714 in the state, he said.<br \/>\nAfter the inter-state movement through road and rail networks was allowed during the lockdown, Assam saw a significant increase in Covid-19 cases.<br \/>\nA total of 327 cases have so far been reported this week.<br \/>\nThe state recorded its highest single-day spike of 156 cases on Monday, while 139 people tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday.<br \/>\nSarma said most of the latest cases are returnees from other states.<br \/>\nHe said swab samples are collected from people soon after they arrive from outstation, and most of the positive cases in Assam are imported and not home-grown.<br \/>\nTen domestic flights are scheduled to arrive and depart from the Lokopriyo Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport on Wednesday, an airport spokesperson said. The domestic flight services resumed on Monday.<br \/>\nOn Tuesday, the state cabinet stressed on strict quarantine for the people coming from outside in view of the reported spike in coronavirus cases.<br \/>\nEveryone coming from outside will be sent for institutional quarantine and no home quarantine will be allowed for the first seven days, till the results of the swab tests are received.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, a microbiology laboratory has been set up at the Institute of Advanced Study in Science and Technology (IASST), Guwahati as an annexe of the Guwahati Medical College and this facility shall increase the number of sample testing for Covid-19 to a large extent, Sarma said.<br \/>\nHe said the laboratory will start functioning soon.<br \/>\nAssam has seven other laboratories, where 72,564 samples have been tested for COVID-19 so far. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUWAHATI, May 27: The number of coronavirus cases crossed the 700-mark in Assam on Wednesday after 32 more people tested positive for the disease, state Health and Family Welfare Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said. With these new patients, including a resident of Kamrup (Metro) who recently returned to the state capital from Ahmedabad by plane, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-126368","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}