COVID-19: Duare Sarkar, students’ programme cancelled for now
Daily COVID-19 cases in Bengal increased to 3,451 on Friday from 439 on Monday.
With huge spike in COVID-19 cases, the Bengal government has decided to cancel its programme, Duare Sarkar, scheduled tomorrow, for now. Another programme with students to celebrate students’ week in the state, scheduled on January 3, has also been cancelled.
Both the programmes involve huge gathering and under the backdrop of a sudden spike in COVID-19 cases, the government has decided to cancel these for now, and reschedule them for later. More restrictions are likely, as senior officers are holding review meeting over this.
Kolkata has recorded a COVID-19 positivity rate of 17.88 per cent during December 24-31, the highest for any district in the country during the period, according to data from the union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. Kolkata’s adjoining district of Howrah also recorded high positivity rate at 7.45 per cent.
This comes when the number of daily COVID-19 cases in the state has increased to 3,451 on Friday from 439 on Monday.
Among all states, West Bengal also has among the highest increase in the number of active cases – there was an increase of 1,934 active cases in Bengal according to figures of January 1. The corresponding figures for Maharashtra is 6,293 and for Delhi it is 1,329. The entire country recorded an increase of 13,420 in a day. West Bengal has also so far reported 16 cases of Omicron.
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