Delayed hospitalisation linked to high death toll in Assam

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Delayed hospitalization of Covid patients from some of the designated governmentCovid Care Centres(CCCs) is among the reasons for the high death toll of 70-80 people succumbing to the virus or Covid-related complications every day inAssam.

This despite the Covid situation improving in the state marginally with the latest positivity rate further declining to 5.57% even as the total cumulative Covid tests crossed the one crore mark on Saturday, with 1,00,89,714 tests since last year.

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high death count despite the falling number of cases is being attributed to the lack of timely Oxygen monitoring of patients in the CCCs.

Surprisingly, some of the cases came from CCCs managed by the .

Despite cases being reported from CCCs at the point of no return, the senior Health official said that in the institutional isolation (CCCs) the oxygen concentration is being checked at least three times a day.