DHUBRI, May 21 - Twenty-year-old Saddam Hussain, who recently returned from Maharashtra, has been picked up by the administration after he was found COVID-19 positive.
It has been informed that Hussain returned from Maharashtra last week via Srirampur Gate in Kokrajhar district, and was put under quarantine at a centre in Kokrajhar. The authority concerned stated that he was released from the quarantine centre on Wednesday and was asked to be in home quarantine. Therefore, he returned to his home at Babur Alga Village at Gauripur.
On Thursday, his COVID-19 test results arrived in which he was found positive. The district administration took him to Guwahati after the result came out.
The COVID-19 positive patient said that he was accompanied by 19 other persons from Dhubri in his journey from Maharashtra that included seven labourers from Gauripur-based Beparipatty.