Thedeath toll in Assam due to the COVID-19 rose to 3 with the death of a71-year-old person on Monday. Gopindra Ch Malakar, who returned from Mumbai,was under treatment at Gauhati Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) after hetested positive of COVID-19.

StateHealth and Family Welfare Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma informed that the persondied at GMCH at around 11.05 am today owing to respiratory distress. The personwho was also a cancer patient returned from Mumbai after which he was testedCOVID-19 positive.

Himanta in a tweet said, "Extremely sad to share that Gopindra Ch Malakar 71, who returned from Mumbai & had neck cancer + Covid + passed away at 11.05 am at GMCH owing to respiratory distress. Doctors did their best. DME has reached & DC informed for other formalities."

Theminister further informed that his wife and son have also been sent to MahendraMohan Choudhury Hospital (MMCH) for suspected COVID-19 infection. They wereshifted to MMCH from Radisson Blu today morning.