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Meghalaya: Two BSF trooper test positive 

| @indiablooms | Jun 28, 2020, at 05:57 pm

Shillong/UNI:  Two more Border Security Force troopers tested positive for novel coronavirus in Meghalaya on Sunday, taking the total tally as of now to 50 in the State.

Within a span of two days, three BSF troopers have tested positive, and the first case was detected on Saturday.

Health and Family Welfare Minister, Alexander Laloo Hek said of the two infected troopers, one had returned to the State from Haryana on June 26, while another is a driver, who was engaged in transporting the troopers from Assam to BSF Meghalaya Frontier Headquarters here.

“Both the troopers are asymptomatic and are now admitted at the isolation ward of the composite BSF hospital,” he said, adding that the BSF is tracing the contact of the troopers.

With these two fresh positive cases, Meghalaya now has 7 active and 42 recoveries while person has died from the infection.

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