Rising Covid19+ cases no cause for panic: CM Sonowal

Rising Covid19+ cases no cause for panic: CM Sonowal

Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal called on the people not to panic looking at the rising number of COVID-19 positive cases as the state government was fully capable of handling the situation.

Sayingthat state government was taking all necessary steps to bring back Assam'speople stranded in different parts of the country, he urged the people tostrictly follow the guidelines issued by the health department like wearing ofmasks, frequent hand washing, maintaining social distance etc. for achievingvictory in this fight against coronavirus.

Sonowalalso requested the people not to discriminate against those who are infected bythe deadly virus as nobody willingly becomes a virus carrier.

TheChief Minister today visited four quarantine facilities which were beingreadied as second tier of quarantine centres for COVID-19 patients. The fourcentres were MDK Kanoi College, the girls hostel of DHSK College, KasturbaGandhi girls hostel at Dikom Parbati Devi ME School and Asom Bidyapith HighSchool, Chabua in Dibrugarh.

While addressing the media persons during his visit to the quarantine facilities, Sonowal urged the people to strictly maintain COVID-19 protocols and he appealed to those who are being quarantined not to violate any quarantine rules.

Violation of quarantine norms does not only affect the patients but also jeopardizes the whole society and therefore, the government have no other option but to take action against those violators of home or institutional quarantine. He also informed that state government was taking steps to set up quarantine centres till the panchayat level and he urged the people of the state to extend wholehearted support to the government so that this outbreak of the global pandemic can be contained.

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