Tripura COVID-19 patient tests negative for coronavirus for second time
The condition of the 46-year-old woman is improvingand if this trend continues, she will soon be shifted to aquarantine facility and will be under surveillance, he said onMonday.
"I believe, with the blessings of Mata Tripurasundari,she will recover very soon. I Pray to Mata Tripurasundari sothat the state turns corona free soon," Deb tweeted.
Tripura reported its first coronavirus case on April 6when the woman, who hails from Gomati district, testedpositive for the disease. She had travelled to Guwahati.
On April 10, a Tripura State Rifles (TSR) personnelalso tested positive for coronavirus, making it the secondconfirmed case in the state.
Both the persons had travelled on the same train onMarch 19.
A total of 710 persons are presently placed underquarantine, of which 183 are in a facility and 527 are homequarantined, a state government report said.
It said that 10,736 people have been placed underquarantine so far, of which 10,026 have completed the 14-dayisolation period.
The Health Department is also likely to conduct randomtests in all districts in the next few days using 15,000 rapidantibody kits, officials said.
The samples of the persons exhibiting coronavirus-likesymptoms will be sent for real-time PCR tests, they added. JOYACD ACD