SHILLONG, June 10 -- The North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health & Medical Sciences (NEIGRIHMS) has temporarily shut down its casualty and labour room after a pregnant woman was tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday.The woman and her husband had arrived in the state from Delhi on May 30 and had underwent the mandatory rapid antibody and RT-PCR testing as per state government protocol.

The husband was in MATI quarantine centre and the wife who was in her 3rd trimester of pregnancy was home quarantined.

After 48 hours of initial testing they were both rapid antibody and RT-PCR negative. Therefore, the husband was released from MATI quarantine center and was also put on home quarantine.

However on June 6, the husband ...