Meghalaya: BSF trooper tests positive for COVID-19 in
Shillong/UNI: A Border Security Force trooper has tested positive for Novel coronavirus in Meghalaya late on Friday night taking the State's total tally as of now up to 48, a health official said on Saturday.
With this, Meghalaya has reordered 6 active cases, 42 recovered and one person has died.
Health and Family Welfare Minister, Alexander Laloo Hek said that the trooper had returned to the State from Bihar on June 23.
“After his arrival in the BSF Meghalaya Frontier Headquarters, the trooper was immediately put under quarantine. His swab samples were collected and sent for testing,” he said, adding that the trooper is asymptomatic and is now admitted at the isolation ward of the composite BSF hospital.
“The BSF is tracing the contact of the troopers since he did not mingle with the civilian community,” the Health Minister
This is the first positive case of COVID-19 detected amongst the paramilitary forces in Meghalaya.
On June 20, an army man who had recently returned to the Assam Regimental Centre Headquarters in Shillong from Guwahati, tested positive for COVID-19.
A health official said that the health condition is normal and stable.
On Friday, the Meghalaya government has advised residents of the state to avoid going to Assam following the rapid surge in COVID-19 cases in that neighbouring State, especially Guwahati.
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