Guwahati, May 24: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday said Assam’s fight against Covid-19 is unparalleled with any other state.
Speaking at the assembly session, CM Sarma said, “No state cannot be compared with Assam in the fight against the second wave of Covid-19. We are working in tandem to control the Covid-19 in Assam. In terms of recovery rate, mortality rate and disease burden rate, after one month Assam will be in first or second state in India,”.
Sarma said, “Assam is the only state in India, which has been providing Oxygen to the other neighbouring states of Northeast. Till now, we have provided Oxygen supplies to Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Manipur and Tripura. We have adequate supplies of Oxygen in Assam and we are a proud state that in this crisis time we can helped other states by supplying Oxygen,”.
CM Sarma said, “No states in India is working like us in the second wave of Covid-19. Name one state, which is providing own oxygen supplies to other states. You will be glad to know that after fulfilling our own demand of Oxygen, Assam is providing Oxygen to other northeastern states,”.
“We have supplied 2000 Remdesivir injections to Jharkhand to fight against Covid-19. Everybody is getting ICU facilities and bed facilities in the hospitals of Assam. The principals of AMCH and GMCH are working in tandem and monitoring every activities in hospitals,”.
On Sunday, Assam’s positivity rate is 5.68 %. The recovery rate is 84.87% till Sunday. A total of 62,722 samples were collected out of which 3,563 were found Covid-19 positive.
