A woman travelling from Ahmedabad to Guwahati by flight on Monday, the day domestic flights resumed after a two-month corona-induced lockdown, tested positive for Covid-19 on Wednesday. This has taken the Covid count to 774, a rise of over 600 in 10 days.
Health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma disclosed the news through a tweet at 1.45pm. “Alert ~ 18 new cases of #COVID19+ incl first air carrier, a resident of Kamrup Metro, who travelled from Ahmedabad to Guwahati; 14 Golaghat, 2 Karbi Anglong, 1 Lakhimpur.”
The development assumes significance because so far the spike in cases was confined to the stranded returning by train and vehicles, mostly the former. Till Wednesday evening, the cases rose to 774, from 682 on Tuesday.
