COVID-19: Bengal power minister Aroop Biswas hospitalised after testing positive
There has been a huge spike in COVID-19 cases.
West Bengal power minister Aroop Biswas was admitted to a private hospital in Kolkata after he tested positive for COVID-19.
Earlier this week, BCCI president and former Indian cricket team skipper Saurav Ganguly had tested positive for COVID-19 and was admitted to the same hospital. There has been a huge spike in COVID-19 cases, and to deal with the situation the state government has cancelled two of its programmes scheduled for the next two days. Top officials are meeting to decide whether some restrictions will be imposed from the coming week.
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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