2020: A year of raging Covid, gas spill, floods, massive protests for Assam
Current Affairs Assam had little luck escaping the ravages of COVID-19 in a year filled with myriad developments for the northeastern state
from aggressive protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act and birth of new political parties to a major industrial disaster.
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Assam's tryst with the killer virus happened on March 31, when a returnee from outside the state tested positive for COVID-19 in Silchar, and since then over 1,040 people have died from the contagion and more than 2,16,000 afflicted.
The Assam government adopted the policy of 'Ruthless Quarantine with A Human Heart' as nearly 30 lakh people underwent both institutional and home isolation...Read more.
