West Bengal: On Sunday, the COVID-19 death toll in the state reached 1,112 after 36 individuals capitulated to the infection, the highest so far in a single day.
The West Bengal government has chosen to force a total lockdown in the state for two days consistently in the midst of a spike in COVID-19 cases. This week, the lockdown will be set up on Thursday and Saturday. The choice has been taken into account network transmission in a couple of regions in West Bengal, state home secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay said.
On Sunday, the COVID-19 death toll in West Bengal reached 1,112 after 36 individuals capitulated to the infection, the highest so far in a single day. Kolkata recorded the most extreme 15 passings, trailed by neighbouring North 24 Parganas nine, Hooghly four, Howrah and South 24 Parganas three each, and Purba Medinipur and Paschim Medinipur one each. At any rate 2278 individuals, the most elevated in a single day, tried positive for the disease, taking the infection count to 42,487. Total active COVID-19 cases are 16,492.
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Meanwhile, 63 additional zones were added to the rundown of ‘broad-based’ contamination zones in the state, expanding the tally to 739. The number of such zones in Kolkata has expanded to 32 from 24, within the city. The government is also planning to procure at least 19 more Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) test kits as it wants to ensure that at least 25,000 tests are carried out every day. The government has recently clubbed containment zones and the buffer zones around them to constitute a ‘broad-based’ containment zone
The West Bengal government is also planning to set up COVID-19 units at every private and state-run hospital, amid the relentless surge in the number of coronavirus cases. An order to improve foundation and accommodate separate units for COVID-19 patients has already been issued to all the state-run hospitals.
