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Senior Karbi Anglong official dies of COVID-19

By Correspondent

DIPHU, July 9 - Ramsing Hansey (56), Additional Director of Agriculture, Karbi Anglong died today at Guwahati Medical College and Hospital. He was earlier admitted to Diphu COVID Care Hospital after he tested positive on July 5. He was suffering from other physical complications also. Earlier, he was referred to GMCH for better treatment but due to physical weakness he couldn�t be shifted immediately.

Ramsing Hansey breathed his last at Guwahati Medical College and Hospital around 10.00 am today. It is important to mention here that this the third COVID-19 death case in Karbi Anglong district.

Alarmingly, the pandemic has also spread among children who don�t have any travel history. Meanwhile, senior bureaucrat Nirola Phangchopi, ACS, who is serving in Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council secretariat, has been transferred to GMCH for better treatment today, after she tested positive. More than 13 positive cases have been detected from different parts of the district till the filing of this report.

Several individuals and organization have urged the authority to enforce a total lockdown in the district to break the chain of the virus after alarming increase in the coronavirus cases in the region. Already many shopkeepers have down their shutters on their own and roads have been deserted. A sense of panic has gripped the residents of Diphu in particular.

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