One person from Tarajan,Jorhat found covid positive yesterday and what shook him up truly was his residence being marked as a containment zone as well even though the official notification from the deputy commissioner’s (DC) office clearly placed his residence outside the demarcated boundaries. Multiple visits to the DC’s office bore no fruit towards the removal of the tag.
Handique reached out to his former ward councillor who expressed helplessness in the matter having remained out of power for close to two years now ever since the dissolution of the last Guwahati Municipal Corporation Council which completed its tenure on 31st July 2018. The elections to constitute a new council have remained pending ever since for reasons unknown.
With the coronavirus pandemic surging, experts are of the opinion that it will peak in the coming months of July and August. The central government however declared Unlock 1, rather than continuing with the lockdown that was imposed when cases were at the minimum.
With the influx of people from other states into Assam, and the number of positive cases currently rising by more than hundred per day, media and politicians have started speculating whether the current situation can be referred to as the community transmission stage.
