Covid-19's 60 days in Assam: Total 1024, active 892, recovered 125, deceased 4

GUWAHATI: Assam marked the completion of its first 60 days of Covid-19 pandemic on Friday by breaching the 1000-mark and reaching a tally of 1024 positive cases with an average growth of 17.06 cases per day.
The state now has 892 active and 125 recovered cases while four patients have deceased and three others have migrated to other states.
The day saw the addition of 144 new cases and recovery of 22 other patients admitted in hospitals in Guwahati, Silchar and Jorhat and their subsequent discharge.
On Friday, Lokapriya Gopinath Bordoloi International airport here received the first repatriation flight from Kuwait carrying 150 passengers, mostly students, belonging to Assam and Tripura. Three more repatriation flights from Ukraine, Moscow and Philippines are expected in the next few days.
Assam’s Covid-19 graph started soaring up after the inter-state movement resumed by the ministry of home affairs from May 5. In absolute terms, against 42 cases reported till the inter-state movement resumed, 893 cases have been reported in the last 25 days of the homecoming of people from other states.
The biggest single-day spike so far is 156 cases, which was recorded on May 25, followed by 144 on Friday and 134 on May 26.
On the other hand 63 patients have recovered and discharged in the last three days and the biggest recovery spike of 25 was recorded on May 27. During this 60-day period, no cases were reported on 23 days while the first recovery was on April 15.
The state’s first case was reported in the body of a 52-year-old resident of Hasanpur near Srigauri in Karimganj district on March 31. He was also the state’s first Tablighi Jamaat returnee to test positive and was admitted to the isolation ward of SMCH. He has cancer and took 37 days, the longest period so far, to recover from Covid-19.
Altogether 86,340 samples have been examined so far, 77,614 of which tested negative for the disease and the results of the remaining are awaited.