Shillong Jun 16: One COVID-19 positive patient who is from a village in Meghalaya bordering Assam is counted as positive case of Assam.

Director of Health Services (MI), Dr Aman War said that the patient has been in Assam for treatment earlier but returned to her village recently.

He said that after the sample of the patient was tested positive for COVID-19, she was taken back to Assam and now under treatment at the Guwahati Medical College.

He informed that contact tracing was being done in the border village.