SONARI, May 22 - Altogether 207 persons have been put under institutional quarantine in Charaideo district, out of which 95 have been quarantined at Sonari College, 21 at Sapekhati College, 6 at Kachumari Multipurpose building and 28 at Sapekhati College girls� hostel.
Bhaskar Lahon and Bimala Devi, who tested COVID-19 positive last evening, were admitted at Assam Medical College and Hospital�s COVID-19 ward late last night. Bhaskar had returned from Gurgaon (Haryana) along with his family while Bimala had returned from Bihar with her husband.
Meanwhile, after two persons tested COVID-19 positive at Sonari, Mon district Deputy Commissioner of Nagaland Thavaseelan K has sealed the inter-State border of Mon district with Charaideo district of Assam with effect from last midnight. As per the order, inter-State movement of people and vehicles have been strictly prohibited. As a result, about 100 rice-laden trucks of Food Corporation of India have been stranded at Dimapur.
