GUWAHATI: Assam Health, Finance and Education Minister, Himanta Biswa Sarma, on Friday last, tweeted that he would stop giving Coronavirus updates through his Twitter handle as the number of COVID cases in Assam has substantially dropped and the positivity rate has fallen below 0.5%.

He even made a statement via his Twitter handle that COVID updates will now come from the official handle of National Health Mission (NHM), Assam as "life has returned to pre-COVID tim
es."

Students of Assam from lower classes have returned to their schools for the very first time since the pandemic had hit our lives.

"For 275+ days, I have shared COVID-19 updates. With a positivity rate of below 0.5%, & considering life is back to pre-COVID times including opening of schools and colleges, I shall discontinue the same from today except for special information. Now updates will come from @nhm_assam," he tweeted.