With improved air quality, the Commission for Air Quality Management in Delhi NCR, and Adjoining Areas (CAQM) on Monday allowed entry of all trucks and lifted the ban on construction activities.After air quality had deteriorated and following .
A total of 6,394 new cases were detected across the state on Monday after carrying out 91,481 tests. The current recovery rate of Assam is 85.73%. (Representative image)
GUWAHATI: Assam on Saturday recorded 92 Covid deaths, the state’s highest fatality count since the beginning of the pandemic, even as the state banned inter-district travel for 15 days from Friday to check the spike in fresh infections.
Since May 10, 595 people have succumbed to the virus.
“Inter-district travel will be banned from Friday. The notification is already out,” chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma told the media.
The state health department has intensified the number of Covid tests from Monday to isolate the maximum number of positive cases by targeting one lakh tests everyday. Significantly, the positivity rate has declined to 6.99% on Monday, from 8.51% reported on Sunday, despite the number of tests being more than double compared to the previous day.