In less than four hours, another person from Goalpara district has tested positive for novel coronavirus on April 28th, 2020.

The patient is a secondary contact of an attendee of the Tablighi Jamaat congregation at Delhi’s Nizamuddin Markaz.

With this, Assam has registered 37 COVID-19 positive cases of which 27 have been discharged and one patient has died. There are nine active COVID-19 cases at present in the State.

Alert ~ A person from Goalpara district, secondary contact of a Markaz attendee, has tested #COVID positive.

The number of #COVID19 patients in Assam now stands at 37. Active hospital cases 9.

Update at 3:45 pm / April 28#AssamCovidCount

— Himanta Biswa Sarma (@himantabiswa) April 28, 2020

At 12:20 pm Assam Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma had tweeted that a 16-year-old girl from Bongaigaon district of Assam has tested positive for COVID-19.

She too is a secondary contact of a Markaz attendee. The teenage girl hails from Manikpur Salmara.

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