GUWAHATI: Health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has tweeted that the Health Department would now be conducting house-to-house COVID-19 test. The tweet read:
"In a first of its kind initiative on mass testing in Assam, Health Dept shall carry out house-to-house #Covid tests in Ward No 2 ( pandu area) of Guwahati Municipality, starting Tuesday (July 7). We target to complete 3000 tests in the Ward in two days."
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Notably, the Pandu area of the city has been demarcated as hotspot after many tested positive in the area.
Earlier, the health minister had also mentioned that the city has officially entered the pandemic stage and the situation might deteriorate in the coming days.
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