Baksa Student who returned from Israel tests COVID-19 negative

A Correspondent

Tamulpur: Sensation prevailed after people assumed that a 27-year old student of Uporkhuti village under Tamulpur subdivision in Baksa district along the Indo-Bhutam border had been infected by COVID-19.

According to his family, the student was pursuing higher studiesin Israel for getting a Ph D degree from IIT Guwahati. Amidst the coronavirus crisis he returned from Israel by flight with another Indian student who is a resident of Uttar Pradesh. They arrived in India on March 22. The Assam student reached his residence in Uparkhuti Village in Baksa on March 24 and he wisely kept himself isolated in his own residence.

On Saturday morning he received an SMS that the UP student had tested COVID-19 positive. Scared, he communicated with the heath department of Baksa district for his health examination. Receiving the information, a team from Naokata PHC rushed to his house and after primary investigation and taking travelling history, the student was sent to GMCH for proper and adequate investigation.

The student has been suffering from fever, cold and cough since Friday. When the student reached GMCH, a team of expert doctors and staff started examination and investigation. After blood test, the student tested COVID-19 negative and was sent home.

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