COVID-19: Hotel Sukhmani sealed in Guwahati

Kamrup Metropolitan District administration has sealed Hotel Sukhmani in the Paltan Bazar area in the city on Wednesday after it had found out that a COVID-19 positive person, Gitarani Karmakar, from Tripura stayed in the hotel on March 16 and 17 last. All the employees of the hotel have been quarantined.

The woman had come from Tripura on March 15 last to offerpuja at Kamakhya Temple in the city and spent March 15 night at the residenceof a priest at Kamakhya Temple complex. The administration has quarantined allthe members of the family of the priest.

The authorities are now looking for six persons from Karimganj who had traveled with the woman from Tripura in the same coach of Tripura Sundari Express on her return journey from Guwahati to Tripura.