Kolkata lockdown news: Today's updates from your city

Traffic movement on Howrah Bridge on Monday (ANI photo)
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.
*Belgachhia slums role models in coronavirus fight
The slums of Lal Maidan and Zarina Maidan in Belgachhia are all set to become a role model about how Kolkata Police and Kolkata Municipal Corporation plan to handle the Covid outbreak in the slums.
*Covid confusion: Homeless woman in West Bengal dies on way to hospital
* Update at 10.07am: Kolkata-bound passengers waiting at Dhaka airport

* Update at 9.54am: Shops selling footwear, bags, helmets, electronic accessories reopen in Siliguri (ANI)

* Update at 9.30am: Death toll due to Covid-19 rises to 3,029; number of cases climb to 96,169, reports PTI quoting Union health ministry
* Update at 8.10am: Traffic movement on Howrah Bridge, which connects Kolkata and Howrah, continues amid checking by police

*The screening of potential plasma donors will begin on Monday at the immunohematology and blood transfusion department of Medical College and Hospital Kolkata (MCHK).
*Passengers who arrive by Vande Bharat flights to Kolkata beginning Monday will be treated as asymptomatic Covid cases unlike two months ago, when Indian nationals who returned from overseas were put in institutional quarantine only if they displayed symptoms like sore throat, fever and respiratory problems.
*In locked-down Kolkata, ‘non-serious’ complaints take an emergency turn
Scores of Kolkatans with ‘non-serious’ ailments, who were forced to defer treatment and elective surgeries because of curtailed services at hospitals and clinics brought about by Covid-19, are now suddenly faced with emergency situations, making them rush for urgent treatment, often lifesaving.
*Commute worry today as Kolkata gets back to work
*In Kolkata, containment zones go smaller, curbs to be graded
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