Guwahati: The Assam Government announced that no new SOPs regarding COVID-19 and its follow-up will be issued in Assam as the situation remains to be ‘controllable’.
The Chief Minister of Assam, Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday announced that starting from 1st January 2022, all the students will be able to reside in hostels as the hostels will be functioning with 100% capacity. This was said by CM Sarma. “We will have to learn living with COVID-19 around. It will not disappear.
Since there is the least mortality right now, we have to maintain safety but not necessarily any restrictions unless it’s the Omicron Variant of the Virus,” said the Chief Minister regarding the rising of COVID-19 cases in Educational Institutions.
The Chief Minister further said, “We are not planning or thinking for any COVID-19 related SOPs in the state. We are desiring to move away from SOPs. But, if there is a rise in the COVID-19 cases in the state, we will think about SOPs then.”.