<p>Four persons, including two women, tested positive for <a href="http://www.deccanherald.com/tag/coronavirus" target="_blank">COVID-19</a> in Assam's Bongaigaon district on Thursday, taking the total number of such cases in the state to 41, Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said.</p>.<p>In a first in the state, the patients -- three from Bongaigaon town and one from Chaprakat -- were found to have no contact history. Their samples were sent for COVID-19 examination as they had fever.</p>.<p>Of the total cases reported in the state so far, 29 have recovered and one person has succumbed to the disease.</p>.<p>"Four more coronavirus positive cases reported from Bongaingaon district. The number of COVID-19 patients in Assam now stands at 41. Twenty-nine discharged, one death. So active hospital cases 11," Sarma tweeted.</p>.<p><strong><a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/coronavirus-live-updates-india-sees-lowest-daily-growth-rate-tally-crosses-26k-concerns-mount-over-maharashtra-827545.html" target="_blank">For latest updates and live news on coronavirus, click here</a></strong></p>.<p>Bongaigaon has emerged as the new 'red zone' in the state with five cases in a week, including that of a 16-year-old girl who tested positive for the disease on Tuesday, Sarma told reporters, adding the deputy commissioner will declare areas within three-km radius of the residences of those affected as containment zone.</p>.<p>"Patients are being taken to Mahendra Mohan Choudhury Hospital in Guwahati," he said.</p>.<p>Altogether six persons have tested positive for COVID-19 this week. A 61-year-old person from Goalpara was found to have contracted the disease on Tuesday.</p>.<p>Apart from Bonagaigaon, Assam has five other districts in the 'red zone' -- Golaghat, Nalbari, Dhubri, Goalpara and Morigaon.</p>.<p>Sarma said that Golaghat and Nalbari districts are expected to come out of the Red Zone over the next few days.</p>.<p>Containment zone restrictions at a high-end apartment in Guwahati, where one person had tested positive, was lifted on Thursday.</p>.<p>Assam has so far tested 9,520 samples, of which 41 tested positive for COVID-19, Results of 708 samples are still awaited.</p>
<p>Four persons, including two women, tested positive for <a href="http://www.deccanherald.com/tag/coronavirus" target="_blank">COVID-19</a> in Assam's Bongaigaon district on Thursday, taking the total number of such cases in the state to 41, Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said.</p>.<p>In a first in the state, the patients -- three from Bongaigaon town and one from Chaprakat -- were found to have no contact history. Their samples were sent for COVID-19 examination as they had fever.</p>.<p>Of the total cases reported in the state so far, 29 have recovered and one person has succumbed to the disease.</p>.<p>"Four more coronavirus positive cases reported from Bongaingaon district. The number of COVID-19 patients in Assam now stands at 41. Twenty-nine discharged, one death. So active hospital cases 11," Sarma tweeted.</p>.<p><strong><a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/coronavirus-live-updates-india-sees-lowest-daily-growth-rate-tally-crosses-26k-concerns-mount-over-maharashtra-827545.html" target="_blank">For latest updates and live news on coronavirus, click here</a></strong></p>.<p>Bongaigaon has emerged as the new 'red zone' in the state with five cases in a week, including that of a 16-year-old girl who tested positive for the disease on Tuesday, Sarma told reporters, adding the deputy commissioner will declare areas within three-km radius of the residences of those affected as containment zone.</p>.<p>"Patients are being taken to Mahendra Mohan Choudhury Hospital in Guwahati," he said.</p>.<p>Altogether six persons have tested positive for COVID-19 this week. A 61-year-old person from Goalpara was found to have contracted the disease on Tuesday.</p>.<p>Apart from Bonagaigaon, Assam has five other districts in the 'red zone' -- Golaghat, Nalbari, Dhubri, Goalpara and Morigaon.</p>.<p>Sarma said that Golaghat and Nalbari districts are expected to come out of the Red Zone over the next few days.</p>.<p>Containment zone restrictions at a high-end apartment in Guwahati, where one person had tested positive, was lifted on Thursday.</p>.<p>Assam has so far tested 9,520 samples, of which 41 tested positive for COVID-19, Results of 708 samples are still awaited.</p>