West Bengal on Sunday reported the highest ever new cases of Kovid-19 at 24,287, the highest since the first wave of infections in 2020. Infections detected in the last 24 hours were 5,485 more than yesterday. 17,55,046, the health department said.
The city accounted for more than a third of Bengal’s Covid infections for the day with 8,712 cases as compared to 7,337 cases on Saturday. While Kolkata has several satellite cities in neighboring North 24 Parganas, including Salt Lake and its infotech and commercial hub, which accounted for 5,053 cases against the previous day’s 3,286 cases. Other districts that reported a large number of infections during the day included the industrial districts of Howrah (1,742) and Hooghly (1,276) near Kolkata.
According to estimates of the spread of the virus prepared by a team from the Indian Institute of Science and the Indian Statistical Institute, the peak for West Bengal based on susceptibility rates will reach the end of January and should begin to decline after that. State government officials felt that by imposing restrictions strictly, they would soon be able to control the rapid spread of the infection. The positivity rate increased to 33.89 per cent from Saturday’s 29.60 per cent, the bulletin said. It added that 18 Covid-19 related deaths were recorded here, taking the toll to 19,901.
While 6 deaths were reported in North 24 Parganas district, 5 in the city and two each in South 24 Parganas and Howrah. One death each has been reported in Hooghly, Purba Medinipur and Dakshin Dinajpur districts. Since Saturday, Bengal reported 8,213 recoveries, though the discharge rate further slipped to 94.42 per cent. So far 16,57,034 people have recovered from the disease in West Bengal.
In the last 24 hours, 71,664 samples have been tested in Bengal, taking the total number of such diagnostic tests to 2,18,74,205, the bulletin said. Meanwhile, BJP state president Sukanta Majumdar was admitted to a private hospital on Sunday after he tested positive for the disease, hospital sources said. A hospital official said, “He has mild fever, cough and cold. His oxygen saturation is stable. He tested positive for Covid through RAT test and is now in isolation cabin. His sample was sent for RTPCR test. Is.”
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