Amid prevalent chaos and uncertainty over access to the essential services and commodities during the lockdown, we bring you the latest updates from your city.
*Essentials in stock for lockdown period and beyond, say West Bengal retailers
*Lemon price drops to Rs 2.50/piece after supply resumes
*KMC will conduct an intensive disinfection drive in a north Kolkata neighbourhood off Bidhan Sarani on Thursday aimed at not only to eliminate any trace of novel coronavirus but also to dispel fear among residents after six people from a family, who had attended a 70-year-old woman’s funeral on Tuesday, were quarantined at the New Town facility on Wednesday.
*West Bengal transport department has clarified that the skeletal bus and taxi services currently in operation are not public transport but to ferry healthcare and other essential services staffers and for emergency commute like transfer of patients to hospitals.
*Restricting entry to Kolkata’s major markets to reaching food to people under poverty line: these are a few strategies that the KMC and Kolkata Police will adopt to conduct joint operations in neighbourhoods, now being regarded as high-risk Covid-19 zones in Kolkata.
* Update at 9.35am: Death toll due to Covid-19 rises to 414 in country; cases climb to 12,380, reports PTI quoting health ministry
*The West Bengal Council for Higher Secondary Examinations will hold the three remaining board exams in June.
*Police in West Bengal issue SOP for frontline personnel
Frontline police officers who are working in tandem with the state health department and civic body officials in shifting Covid-19 suspects to hospitals and quarantine centres will have to wear personal protective Equipment (PPE), an SOP released by Lalbazar to all its units has mandated.
*West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee has asked Swasthya Bhavan to prepare a rotational duty roster for doctors, nurses and paramedical staff working without a break in government hospitals.
*West Bengal chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said students receiving degrees in the sixth semester (for the undergraduate programme) and tenth semester (for postgraduate programme) will have to appear in the examinations, after which they will be awarded their terminating degree certificates. For the rest of the students pursuing UG and PG courses, the semesters will be merged and an examination will be held in December 2020 or January 2021.
*West Bengal hospitals take steps to guard healthcare workers from coronavirus
*Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday allowed more concessions in the state as part of her lockdown plan with a “human face”, balancing life and livelihood with a special focus on sectors that engage the largest number of daily labourers.
*Essentials in stock for lockdown period and beyond, say West Bengal retailers
*Lemon price drops to Rs 2.50/piece after supply resumes
*KMC will conduct an intensive disinfection drive in a north Kolkata neighbourhood off Bidhan Sarani on Thursday aimed at not only to eliminate any trace of novel coronavirus but also to dispel fear among residents after six people from a family, who had attended a 70-year-old woman’s funeral on Tuesday, were quarantined at the New Town facility on Wednesday.
*West Bengal transport department has clarified that the skeletal bus and taxi services currently in operation are not public transport but to ferry healthcare and other essential services staffers and for emergency commute like transfer of patients to hospitals.
*Restricting entry to Kolkata’s major markets to reaching food to people under poverty line: these are a few strategies that the KMC and Kolkata Police will adopt to conduct joint operations in neighbourhoods, now being regarded as high-risk Covid-19 zones in Kolkata.
* Update at 9.35am: Death toll due to Covid-19 rises to 414 in country; cases climb to 12,380, reports PTI quoting health ministry
*The West Bengal Council for Higher Secondary Examinations will hold the three remaining board exams in June.
*Police in West Bengal issue SOP for frontline personnel
Frontline police officers who are working in tandem with the state health department and civic body officials in shifting Covid-19 suspects to hospitals and quarantine centres will have to wear personal protective Equipment (PPE), an SOP released by Lalbazar to all its units has mandated.
*West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee has asked Swasthya Bhavan to prepare a rotational duty roster for doctors, nurses and paramedical staff working without a break in government hospitals.
*West Bengal chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said students receiving degrees in the sixth semester (for the undergraduate programme) and tenth semester (for postgraduate programme) will have to appear in the examinations, after which they will be awarded their terminating degree certificates. For the rest of the students pursuing UG and PG courses, the semesters will be merged and an examination will be held in December 2020 or January 2021.
*West Bengal hospitals take steps to guard healthcare workers from coronavirus
*Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday allowed more concessions in the state as part of her lockdown plan with a “human face”, balancing life and livelihood with a special focus on sectors that engage the largest number of daily labourers.
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