People must learn to live with the virus: Govt

Photo: ANI
Photo: ANI

Amid the outbreak of the Coronavirus, the Uniongovernment on Friday said, "We have to learn to live with the virus."Addressing the media, joint secretary in the health ministry Lav Agarwal urgedpeople to make COVID-19 prevention guidelines a part of their lives as abehavioural change.

"As we talk of relaxations to the lockdown and of migrantworkers returning back to their respective homes, there is a big challenge infront of us that we also have to learn to live with the virus," he said,adding, "And when we are talking about learning to live with the virus then itis very important that the guidelines that are there on saving oneself from thevirus are adopted in the community as a behavioural change."

Speaking about the probable zonal changes in thedistricts, he said that the revised list of green, orange and red zones willsoon be circulated to the states. He also said that there are 216 districts inwhich no COVID-19 case has been reported till date.

Meanwhile, the total number of positive COVID-19 cases inAssam increased to 59 till the filing of this report.

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