India is the second-largest tea exporter in the world, and the main tea-growing regions exist in the states of Assam and West Bengal. While some $831 million worth of.
Dibrugarh s Salt Brook Academy Principal dies of COVID-19
The Principal had diabetes with hypertension and chronic obstructive airway disease. On Monday morning, his health deteriorated and died shortly after
| 11 May 2021 5:56 AM GMT
Dibrugarh: Dibrugarh district s Salt Brook Academy Principal Ajoy Sahu has succumbed to COVID-19 on Monday at the age of 52.
A resident of Moran, Sahu was admitted to Assam Medical College and Medical (AMCH) after testing positive for COVID.
Sources said that he had diabetes with hypertension and chronic obstructive airway disease. On Monday morning, Sahu s health deteriorated and died shortly after.
AMCH superintendent Prasanta Dihingia said that Sahu was treated at AMCH for COVID-19 but he had some comorbidities like diabetes and other complications like hypertension and chronic obstructive airway disease. Today morning he died at the hospital while undergoing treatment, he added.
Ninety workers and staff members of a tea garden in upper Assam's Dibrugarh district have tested positive for coronavirus, forcing the district administration to declare it a containment zone.
Tea estate shut in Assam after 198 test positive
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Local authorities have closed a tea estate in eastern Assam’s Dibrugarh district after 198 workers and members of their families tested positive for COVID-19.
The Zaloni Tea Estate was declared a containment zone on Wednesday. District Surveillance Officer of Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme, Nabajyoti Gogoi said the cases were reported over the past 48 hours. “The patients have been kept at the tea garden hospital and in some empty houses within the estate. Health officials have been vaccinating other workers of the garden and their family members who tested negative,” he said. About 60 other cases were also reported from two adjoining tea estates. An average of 4,596 people tested positive in the last three days in Assam. The number of cases on May 3 was 4,489 twice th