Guwahati Coronavirus

Assam on Wednesday reported the highest single-day spike in COVID-19 cases for the third day in a row, with 8,339 people testing positive for the infection, pushing the tally to 6,70,128, Health Minister Keshab Mahanta said.

Registering its highest single-day spike since the onset of the pandemic, Assam logged 8,072 Covid cases yesterday which pushed the state's tally to 6,61,789. The previous highest number of new cases on a single day were reported on Monday.

Assam has been reporting a five-fold increase in daily Covid cases for the last 10 days, according to an analysis by NDTV.

Over 50 people, including students and a faculty member, have tested positive for COVID-19 in IIT-Guwahati over the last six days, forcing the authorities to impose restrictions on the campus, an official said on Wednesday.

A team of researchers of Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IITG) has developed a coating to modify ordinary cloth or silk masks for better protection against aerosol-driven infections like COVID-19, the premier institute said.

The Assam government will use the voters' list and data from 1,204 polling booths across Guwahati to verify the Covid vaccination status of the city's residents and identify those who have yet to get the jab, Health Minister Keshab Mahanta said.

Researchers at Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati have developed a low-cost sterilization box to disinfect small household items by combined heat and UV radiation to prevent COVID-19.

A football stadium-turned 300-bed COVID-19 hospital was inaugurated by Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday at Sarusajai Stadium complex in Guwahati in preparation for a potential third wave.

For the last five days, Baisistha Deka has been visiting the Hengrabari Medical Unit vaccine centre in Guwahati, the only permanent vaccine centre in the city that has access to Covaxin supplies, in the hope of getting his second dose.

Assam's famous Ambubachi festival, held annually at the iconic Kamakhya temple in Guwahati, has been cancelled for the second time in a row due to the raging coronavirus pandemic. The festival was to start from June 22.

A doctor at a coronavirus facility in Assam's Hojai, around 140 kilometres from Guwahati, was on Tuesday mercilessly punched, kicked, and pounded with metal trash cans and bricks, by the relatives of a Covid patient who had died allegedly due to oxyg

Four-time Gossaigaon MLA Majendra Narzary died due to post-COVID complications at a state-run hospital in Guwahati on Wednesday, its doctors said.

A mother of a two-month-old girl in Guwahati has volunteered to breastfeed newborns in the city who have lost their mothers to coronavirus or those who can't feed the child as they are in isolation due to the disease.

Thirty members of the transgender community got their first Covid vaccination dose in Guwahati on Friday. It was the first such step reported in the entire country, sources in the government told NDTV.

The Guwahati Press Club today wrote an SOS letter to Assam Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma seeking a vaccination camp in the city for journalists older than 45.

Assam on Wednesday reported the highest single-day spike in COVID-19 cases for the third day in a row, with 8,339 people testing positive for the infection, pushing the tally to 6,70,128, Health Minister Keshab Mahanta said.

Registering its highest single-day spike since the onset of the pandemic, Assam logged 8,072 Covid cases yesterday which pushed the state's tally to 6,61,789. The previous highest number of new cases on a single day were reported on Monday.

Assam has been reporting a five-fold increase in daily Covid cases for the last 10 days, according to an analysis by NDTV.

Over 50 people, including students and a faculty member, have tested positive for COVID-19 in IIT-Guwahati over the last six days, forcing the authorities to impose restrictions on the campus, an official said on Wednesday.

A team of researchers of Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IITG) has developed a coating to modify ordinary cloth or silk masks for better protection against aerosol-driven infections like COVID-19, the premier institute said.

The Assam government will use the voters' list and data from 1,204 polling booths across Guwahati to verify the Covid vaccination status of the city's residents and identify those who have yet to get the jab, Health Minister Keshab Mahanta said.

Researchers at Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati have developed a low-cost sterilization box to disinfect small household items by combined heat and UV radiation to prevent COVID-19.

A football stadium-turned 300-bed COVID-19 hospital was inaugurated by Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday at Sarusajai Stadium complex in Guwahati in preparation for a potential third wave.

For the last five days, Baisistha Deka has been visiting the Hengrabari Medical Unit vaccine centre in Guwahati, the only permanent vaccine centre in the city that has access to Covaxin supplies, in the hope of getting his second dose.

Assam's famous Ambubachi festival, held annually at the iconic Kamakhya temple in Guwahati, has been cancelled for the second time in a row due to the raging coronavirus pandemic. The festival was to start from June 22.

A doctor at a coronavirus facility in Assam's Hojai, around 140 kilometres from Guwahati, was on Tuesday mercilessly punched, kicked, and pounded with metal trash cans and bricks, by the relatives of a Covid patient who had died allegedly due to oxyg

Four-time Gossaigaon MLA Majendra Narzary died due to post-COVID complications at a state-run hospital in Guwahati on Wednesday, its doctors said.

A mother of a two-month-old girl in Guwahati has volunteered to breastfeed newborns in the city who have lost their mothers to coronavirus or those who can't feed the child as they are in isolation due to the disease.

Thirty members of the transgender community got their first Covid vaccination dose in Guwahati on Friday. It was the first such step reported in the entire country, sources in the government told NDTV.

The Guwahati Press Club today wrote an SOS letter to Assam Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma seeking a vaccination camp in the city for journalists older than 45.