A Covid care centre at a tea garden in Dibrugarh
DIBRUGARH: The high Covid fatalities among tea plantation workers continue to be a cause of concern in the upper Assam tea belt with 77.14 per cent of the total deaths among the workforce coming from 7 of the 9 districts in the area.
According to official data, the state s tea gardens have reported 105 Covid deaths during the second wave of which 81 deaths have occurred in the seven districts of Dibrugarh, Tinsukia, Golaghat, Sivasagar, Charaideo, Jorhat and Lakhimpur. Only two upper Assam districts, Dhemaji and Majuli, do not have any Covid fatalities till date. Assam s 555 tea estates of the total 803 registered estates are located in the 9 upper Assam districts with Dibrugarh having the highest numbers with 177 tea gardens, followed by Tinsukia with 122 and Jorhat with 88.
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
COVID 2.0 Hits Assam s Tea Gardens, 90 Workers Test Positive
The garden hospital and the two vacant staff quarters have been turned into temporary isolation centres for the positive patients
| 6 May 2021 9:13 AM GMT
Dibrugarh: COVID-19 has now reached the tea gardens of Assam. Tea industry is one of the largest revenue earners of the state. According to reports, around 90 tea garden workers and staff of Zaloni tea estate in Dibrugarh have tested positive for the deadly virus.
A source involved in the testing of the samples said that close to 150 people may have contracted the virus. The Dibrugarh district administration has shut down the Zaloni tea estate which falls under Tengakhat revenue circle.