Assam Govt Orders Pasting of Posters Outside Covid Patients in Home Isolation
News 18The Assam government on Friday ordered all district authorities to paste posters outside the residence of COVID-19 positive persons if they are in home isolation to protect the community at large from further spread of the disease. Chief Secretary Jishnu Baruah, in his capacity as the Chairperson of the state executive of the Assam State Disaster Management Agency, issued the order. The pasting of posters will be done only if such a residence is used by the COVID-19 positive person for self- isolation or quarantine purpose and such posters shall be removed as soon as such person/persons turn negative. Assam has so far reported 3,15,554 positive cases with 1984 deaths reported and there 42,144 active cases while 2,70,079 persons having recovered.