They have expressed concern as they said they do not have the exact information about fresh coronavirus affected persons and deaths. The concerns come at a time when an Inter-Ministerial Central Team (IMCT) that touring the region and that today went to Kalimpong has alleged noncooperation from the state administration, including the police in north Bengal.
The 44-year old woman died at the North Bengal Medical College and Hospital on 30 March. Some of her relatives, including those in Siliguri, had also come in contact with her before her death. Some of them tested positive for Covid- 19 and have now gone home after being cured in a Covid hospital in Siliguri.
The team has also asked the state government to furnish information on testing, quarantining and contact tracing of persons who returned from the mass gathering at Nizamuddin in Delhi last month. Currently, the total active Corona cases in Bengal is 423.
His suggestion was as unorthodox as it was direly reckless on the part of a President who has been at sixes and sevens while trying to address the scourge. His prescription on disinfectants would have been hilarious were it not for the profound implications.
Exactly a month after the first phase of the lockdown was declared by the Prime Minister, Kolkata now poses a forbidding challenge to the administration. Chief among the reasons is the congestion and its attendant problems ~ the city is dotted with suffocatingly overcrowded slums which showcase a life of squalor amidst the glitzy highrises.
To keep a check on the movement of the people, the district administration has taken a decision to set up a helium balloon fitted with camera to keep a track on the movement of people and vehicles.
The milkmen across the state bearing the brunt of Coronavirus lockdown had sought state’s intervention into the crisis as lakhs of litres of milk everyday were going on waste for want of consumers during the lockdown.
It may be mentioned here that the government has recently ordered MR dealers all over the state to open their ration shops two times a day—four hours in the morning and six hours in the evening.
Health workers who get infected with the novel coronavirus (Covid-19), remain asymptomatic and later get cured of it become antibody-positive for the infection, says Dr KK Aggarwal, president, Confederation of Medical Associations of Asia and Oceania.
At the global level, India overwhelmingly believes that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is handling the coronavirus outbreak much more effectively when compared to the most developed countries, including the USA.
