With the rising corona cases, every country is issuing its own SOP. The Health & Family Welfare Department Government of Assam on Friday has issued a Standard Operating Procedure order for persons entering in Guwahati by air travel. The order declared that they will have to undergo Rapid Antigen Test (RAT) at a preferred testing center after the migrant lands in and the Kamrup (Metro) district administration will make necessary arrangements in this regard. The order said, ''If the RAT result is positive, the person shall undergo home isolation and treatment in COVID Care Centre or hospital, as per protocol."

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However, if the RAT test comes out negative, the passenger's swab sample would be taken for RT-PCR testing. The RT-PCR tests can be both free and paid as per the choice of the passenger. The free RT-PCR tests will be regulated by the State Government and the test result will be available within 3-5 days of the collection of the swab test at the preferred testing center. The person will have to remain in home isolation for the next 5 days until the declaration of the test result.

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Further, the person will be hand stamped during the collection of samples and a home isolation notice will be pasted in a person's residence. Paid RT-PCR test will be done by agencies at the designated testing center on payment of the requisite fee, as may be specified from time to time. The test results will be provided by the agency within 24 hours. The person will have to remain in isolation in his/ her residence until the hour of the test result. The person will accordingly be hand stamped. Although, pasting of home isolation posters will not take place.

Assam: Congress MP Pradyut Bordoloi gave this statement regarding the coronavirus cases