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Tripura: Ambulance driver from Chennai tests positive for COVID-19

<span style="color: #222222;">In Tripura, an ambulance driver who came to drove five residents of Tripura from Chennai has tested COVID-19 positive.<br />'' Law Minister Ratan Lal Nath informed media persons that seven persons including two drivers in an ambulance coming from Tamil Nadu state entered Tripura on April 27.<br />''<br />'' The Minister said after testing the samples of all seven, one of the drivers from Tamil Nadu was found positive.<br />''<br />'' However, the drivers have already left Tripura as the travel pass was valid till April 28 and the test result came yesterday.<br />'' All the seven people were tested asymptomatic when they were screened at Churaibari check-post, informed the Minister.<br />'' Meanwhile, the five persons have been put under 14-day home quarantine.<br />''<br />''He further said it is difficult to allow all the stranded persons to enter and brought back to the state amid the spread of the pandemic. So far, over 6,000 people have registered with the state helpline number and it is believed that nearly 40,000 people are outside the state, Mr. Ratan said.</span><br />

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