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GUWAHATI: A man masquerading as a doctor was arrested from Mokalbari tea estate in upper Assam s Dibrugarh district on Thursday.
He was using the registration number of a doctor from Karnataka, identified as Dr Stephen Antony, who has been abroad since 2009. Tea estate sources said the fake doctor, Simon Nag, was working as a medical officer in Mokalbari since 2018.
The forgery was detected by Dr. Abhijit Neog of a Guwahati-based hospital. It was Neog, who established contact with the real Dr Stephen Antony, the original registration number holder, who is now practicing in Singapore. Antony graduated from St. John s Medical College, Bengaluru in 2006 and got his registration from Medical Council of India in 2007.
Tea estate in Assam shut after 133 people test COVID-19 positive, declared containment zone
Top officials including the Medical Inspector of Plantations and officials from the health department have been sent to take stock of the situation. (Image Source: IANS/Representative photo)
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Updated: May 7, 2021, 12:02 PM IST
Over 200 tea estate workers and staff members from at least two different tea gardens in upper Assam s Dibrugarh district have been found to be COVID-19 positive in the past three days, forcing the district administration to declare it a containment zone.
The Zaloni tea estate in Assam s Dibrugarh district has been shut down after 133 people tested positive for the virus. The tea estate has been declared a containment zone, Deputy Commissioner Pallav Gopal Jha said. He also added that the patients are asymptomatic at present.
Assam: Tea estate in Dibrugarh shut down as 133 test COVID positive ANI | Updated: May 07, 2021 06:41 IST
Dibrugarh (Assam) [India], May 7 (ANI): The Zaloni tea estate in Assam s Dibrugarh district has been forced to shut down after 133 people tested positive for COVID-19.
According to Deputy Commissioner Pallav Gopal Jha, the estate has been declared a containment zone. 133 cases were detected at Zaloni tea estate till yesterday. All patients are asymptomatic. The tea estate has now been declared a containment zone, Jha said.
Coronavirus cases in the country have been rapidly increasing over the last few weeks. In Assam, there are currently 31,262 active cases. A total of 2,40,004 recoveries and 1,485 deaths have been reported from the state so far.
Two tea estates in Assam declared containment zones after 185 people test positive for Covid-19
Two tea estates in Assam declared containment zones after 185 people test positive for Covid-19
After detection of 185 Covid-19 cases, the administration in Assam’s Dibrugarh and Biswanath districts have declared two tea estates as containment zones.
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UPDATED: May 7, 2021 02:55 IST
After detection of 185 Covid-19 cases, the administration in Assam’s Dibrugarh and Biswanath districts have declared two tea estates as containment zones. (Photo: Hemanta Kumar Nath)
After a rapid rise in Covid-19 cases in the tea garden areas, the district administration in Assam’s Dibrugarh and Biswanath have been forced to declare two tea gardens as containment zones.