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.
*West Bengal plans to decentralize Posta trade
* Update at 9.28am: Death toll due to Covid-19 rises to 1,886; cases climb to 56,342 in India, reports PTI quoting Union health ministry
*Private hospitals in Kolkata were asked by the health department on Thursday to enhance the number of Covid beds and increase the capacity of their existing units.
*Another locality in Salt Lake — a stone’s throw from City Centre and close to the three liquor shops that have been attracting the largest crowd in the past four days — was sealed off on Thursday after a CD Block resident was hospitalized with Covid-l9 ike symptoms.
*After off-shops and Bevco reopened across all zones, barring in containment areas, more good news awaits tipplers. The dwindling stock at warehouses of Bevco , the state-owned wholesale liquor agency, is set to be replenished soon, with the government permitting producers of India-Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL) and beer to restart operations. If everything goes according to plan, all distilleries, breweries and bottling plants will resume production by Saturday.
*It is the time of Ramzan and locals in a Garden Reach cluster have come together with a proposal that should bring hope to the Kolkata Municipal Corporation that is desperately looking for spaces to set up quarantine centres. On Wednesday, the imam of the Jamia Masjid Gausia, popularly known as Bangali Bazar Masjid, proposed to give the entire third floor of the mosque on Iron Gate Road for quarantine purpose.
*Medical College Hospital (MCH) Kolkata took in four Covid-19 positive patients on Wednesday, the first day of its operation as a full-fledged tertiary-level facility for Covid-19. The hospital also got 18 new ventilator machines on Wednesday. These will be used to treat patients in need of intensive care facilities.
*A four-month-old with symptoms similar to Kawasaki disease has tested Covid-19 positive, something that has already been noticed in New York and several European countries. Kawasaki disease causes inflammation in blood vessels throughout the body. It happens in three phases, and a lasting fever is usually the first sign. The condition mostly affects children below five years.
*Private hospitals in Kolkata were asked by the health department on Thursday to enhance the number of Covid beds and increase the capacity of their existing units. In a meeting held at Swasthya Bhavan, they have also been asked to start testing Covid samples to resume normal services and operate at full strength.
*West Bengal plans to decentralize Posta trade
* Update at 9.28am: Death toll due to Covid-19 rises to 1,886; cases climb to 56,342 in India, reports PTI quoting Union health ministry
*Private hospitals in Kolkata were asked by the health department on Thursday to enhance the number of Covid beds and increase the capacity of their existing units.
*Another locality in Salt Lake — a stone’s throw from City Centre and close to the three liquor shops that have been attracting the largest crowd in the past four days — was sealed off on Thursday after a CD Block resident was hospitalized with Covid-l9 ike symptoms.
*After off-shops and Bevco reopened across all zones, barring in containment areas, more good news awaits tipplers. The dwindling stock at warehouses of Bevco , the state-owned wholesale liquor agency, is set to be replenished soon, with the government permitting producers of India-Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL) and beer to restart operations. If everything goes according to plan, all distilleries, breweries and bottling plants will resume production by Saturday.
*It is the time of Ramzan and locals in a Garden Reach cluster have come together with a proposal that should bring hope to the Kolkata Municipal Corporation that is desperately looking for spaces to set up quarantine centres. On Wednesday, the imam of the Jamia Masjid Gausia, popularly known as Bangali Bazar Masjid, proposed to give the entire third floor of the mosque on Iron Gate Road for quarantine purpose.
*Medical College Hospital (MCH) Kolkata took in four Covid-19 positive patients on Wednesday, the first day of its operation as a full-fledged tertiary-level facility for Covid-19. The hospital also got 18 new ventilator machines on Wednesday. These will be used to treat patients in need of intensive care facilities.
*A four-month-old with symptoms similar to Kawasaki disease has tested Covid-19 positive, something that has already been noticed in New York and several European countries. Kawasaki disease causes inflammation in blood vessels throughout the body. It happens in three phases, and a lasting fever is usually the first sign. The condition mostly affects children below five years.
*Private hospitals in Kolkata were asked by the health department on Thursday to enhance the number of Covid beds and increase the capacity of their existing units. In a meeting held at Swasthya Bhavan, they have also been asked to start testing Covid samples to resume normal services and operate at full strength.
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