GUWAHATI: There was no addition to the total Covid-19 positive cases in Assam in last 24 hours but four patients admitted in Swahid Kushal Konwar Civil Hospital at Golaghat were discharged on Friday morning, taking the number of patients released to nine.Assam health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that the number of positive cases might rise in the coming days but there was no reason for any panic.“In the next couple of days we might see an increase of positive cases because of secondary transmission. All those who had returned from Nizamuddin and tested positive and have been taken to hospitals but they had already spent four to five days with their family and might have transmitted the virus to their family members. We have also quarantined the family members, about 1400 of them in government facilities and as and when they get tested after completion of 14 days, we might have few positive cases,” Sarma said.“There is no reason for any panic because these potential positive cases are all in government quarantine and not moving freely in the society,” he added.The total active cases in the state on Friday now stand at 24 out of the 34 positive cases. One patient has died. On Wednesday two were discharge from a Covid hospital in Sonapur and three others were released in Goalpara on Thursday.Sarma said that the blood and throat swabs of the four Golaghat patients were thoroughly tested at the Jorhat Medical College and ICMR , Lahowal. “We expect to discharge few more patients in the next few days,” he added.He said that Morigaon deputy commissioner and superintendent of police have been quarantined after they were found to have come in contact with a Nizamuddin returnee and Covid-19 positive. “The head of Tablighi Jamaat of Assam initially did not reveal that he had gone to Nizamuddin and so the DC and SP had come in contact with him to help locate all those who had gone there. Now he has said he too had gone to Nizamuddin and so the DC and SP have been put in quarantine and test samples taken though the contact was more than 14 days,” Sarma said.