guwahati the kamrup metro district administration on saturday declared the raj bhavan as a containment zone after two of its employees tested positive for covid19 at least 1252 people in the city have tested positive since tuesday last many believe the city is emerging as the new hotbed of covid19 the kamrup metropolitan district has the highest number of cases among all districts in the statean additional deputy commissioner a senior information officer and a peon of the deputy commissioners ofice have also tested positive and are undergoing treatment at the gauhati medical college and hospitallast week the assam government had announced a stringent 14day lockdown in kamrup metro district after around 700 people without travel history tested positive since june 15kamrup metropolitan deputy commissioner biswajit pegu said in view of the detection of covid19 positive patients at the raj bhavan campus in guwahati city under kamrup metropolitan district in the interest of maintenance of public hygiene and to prevent further spread of covid19 virus the raj bhavan has been declared as a containment zonehe said it has been directed to seal the area immediatelyany unauthorized entry and exit into the zone is barred till the area is declared safe as per guidelines of the ministry of health and family welfare goi any movement of any unauthorized individual and vehicle within the notified area is also prohibited with immediate effect pegu added a raj bhavan source said the two gradeiii staff were found covid19 positive on saturday they were in the line of duty and testing was done on wednesday along with the others office staffthe source also said that testing has been done among all staff and people including the governor at the raj bhavan gp singh additional director general of police law and order said at least 149 assam police personnel have been infected in the state so far out of the total infected personnel 30 have recovered a senior guwahati police official told toi at least 112 police personnel under the commissionerate of police guwahati have tested positive and 17 of them have been released after recovery