Assam government reduces quarantine period for passengers coming from outside state to 10 days

In an order issued by the state health department stated that, the state government has decided that period of quarantine for passengers arriving from outside the state is reduced from 14 days to a total period of 10 days, inclusive of days spent in institutional, hotel quarantine as well as home quarantine.

“For instance, if a passenger spends initial 2 days in a hotel / institutional quarantine, then he/ she shall have to spend the remaining duration of 8 days in home quarantine. Similarly, if any passenger directly proceeds for home quarantine, the he/ she shall spend 10 days in home quarantine. However, if the RT-PCR test result of such passengers turns out positive in the interim, steps will be taken as per standard procedure,” said in the government order copy.

Earlier, the passengers had to undergo a 14-day quarantine period inclusive institutional and home quarantine.

Assam has reported 1371 new positive cases for the deadly virus in last 24 hours.

With the new cases the state tally has now surged to 34947.

Out of the new cases, 295 cases have been detected in Kamrup (Metro) district while 221 cases reported from Kamrup (Rural) district.

Note: Just a representative picture of passengers

(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)