Of the five Covid-19 patients in Assam’s Bongaigaon district, four are stable and the elderly woman patient has a little congestion in her lungs, health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma told the media on Monday after his review meeting at the Bongaigaon deputy commissioner’s office here.

The first Covid-19 case was detected on April 28 and the rest on April 30 in the district.

In the first instance, a woman got infected after she and her family members had visited her maternal grandfather’s residence in Dhubri district. Her grandfather, a Markaz returnee, had tested positive.

Of the rest four Covid-19 patients, two are workers of a government public health centre in Bongaigaon town. The third patient is a vegetable vendor and the fifth one is an elderly woman, whose son is a railway employee in new Bongaigaon. The son had a travel history and he had spent 14 days in home quarantine.

“Already over 2,500 people have been quarantined for their active and passive contacts with the four Covid-19 patients. After the result of the samples collected from these contacts, who have been put in institutional quarantine, is out on May 11, the lockdown status of Bongaigaon district, which is in orange zone, will be reconsidered,” Sarma said.

The minister had visited the two containment zones of the town and the civil hospital where he inspected the quarantine facility.

The minister said he would tell Bongaigaon deputy commissioner M.S. Lakshmi Priya to ensure that people in the district get vegetables, fuels, essential items and ambulance service during the lockdown period.