As patients from other districts and states are being admitted in Dr Chhang’s Hospital in Siliguri, Siliguri Mayor Asok Bhattacharya has said immediate steps should be taken to operationalise such facilities in other districts too.
According to sources, the state government will issue a notification tomorrow in connection with the restrictions and relaxations that would be applicable in the coronavirus red, orange and green zones across the state.
Vector borne diseases which make their return every year after bouts of rainfall, have this time too put citizens in fear.
“He has been admitted in hospital and the remaining have been sent for institutional quarantine. We are tracing others who came in contact with him,” said a health department official.
In response to the two letters written by Dhankhar on 23 and 24 April respectively, Banerjee today wrote that the language, tone, tenor and contents were “unprecedented in the annals of Indian Constitution and political history”.
And it sits on top of an obvious pile of what will diplomatically be called differences over who should spend how much, with the postponement adding its own bit to the tab.
And as each circular carries a grim warning of non-compliance leading to prosecution in terms of the Disaster Management Act and Section 188 of the Indian Penal Code, it also carries with it the risk of draconian interpretation by those implementing rules on ground.
The KoPT chairman, Mr Vinit Kumar today said “Out of the three, two KoPT employees are in the hospital and are undergoing treatment while one CISF constable has also been put in isolation.
Sources said that two health staff wearing the personal protection equipment (PPE) and taking other precautionary measures will go about in different places in the van and collect the samples from people around.
Similarly, stakeholders associated with the tea industry have also sought help from Mrs Chhetri, a Trinamul Congress leader from Darjeeling Hills, to criticise the Centre and to inform the state about the problems in the tea industry and finding solutions.
