Five more returnees test positive, quarantined in city

SHILLONG: With five more returnees testing positive for novel coronavirus on Tuesday, Meghalaya has seven active cases till date.
The five persons were part of the returnees from Delhi and Haryana.
The patients who are asymptomatic are lodged at the corona care centre in the city.
Earlier, two returnees from Chennai were tested positive and currently they are in quarantine centres in Garo Hills.
Meanwhile, Assam has released the name of Ajit Dey, a resident of Karimganj who was tested positive on Tuesday after travelling from Shillong.
He travelled from Shillong to Karimganj in a hired vehicle.
He was asymptomatic and under home quarantine after his arrival on May 23 and swab was collected on the same day.
Earlier, allaying fears over the arrival of several thousands of residents from different parts of the state, Chief Minister Conrad Sangma said the health authorities have completed a majority of the tests of those who have returned to the state and almost all have tested negative.
“Almost 99 per cent of the tests of the returnees from Bengaluru and Gurugram have been completed and we had thermal, rapid diagnostic and RT-PCR tests and all three tests have been conducted on every individual”, the chief minister said.
Over 9,500 returnees have already reached the state and around 6,000 more are expected to return in the coming days through the specially arranged trains and flights from outside.
The returnees are being put up at various quarantine centres of the state for a few days where their samples will be taken and if found negative, they will be allowed to go for home quarantine.
The chief minister said a special train scheduled from Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh on Monday will carry 317 people belonging to Meghalaya.
Other special trains scheduled from Wednesday are from Delhi, Jaipur and Kerala.
The state government has taken up with other states regarding people of Meghalaya stranded there, and the details will be communicated when travel arrangement is made, he said.

COVID UPDATE
Total Positive Cases: 20
Total Active Cases: 7
Recovered: 12
Deceased: 1
Total Samples Tested: 6553
Negative: 5599
Results Awaited: 934
Returnees Contacted Through IVRS: 7447
People Under Institutional Quarantine: 727
High Risk Contacts: 313
Low Risk Contacts: 1122