People stand outside a Covid-19 vaccination centre to receive jabs in Nagaon on Friday
GUWAHATI: The northeast’s biggest quarantine centre, which was set up on the premises of an athletic stadium here one year back when the first wave of Covid-19 hit the state and dismantled seven months later after improvement in the situation, has been re-built to serve as a Covid care centre in the ongoing second wave.
The state’s caseload of active cases in the current month has increased from 1,881 on April 1 to over 15,000 and death of 67 persons in these 23 days till Friday.
On Friday, the state saw a spike of 2,348 new cases of which 883 have been detected in Kamrup (Metropolitan) district. The test positivity percentage also crossed 3% on Friday.