Meghalaya director of health services K.H. Lakiang said test results of the three civil hospital staff — ward boy Frederick Jyrwa, 29, nurse Panchi Momin, 26, and male nurse S. Lyngdoh, 35 — were found positive. “We sent nine swab samples to Dibrugarh for testing a few days back. We received the test samples of seven on Saturday evening and of them, the three hospital staff tested positive.”
The nurses and the ward boy are suspected to have contracted the virus from two patients from the US.