Kolkata: Bidhannagar civic area cases cross 1,000 Covid cases

KOLKATA: Covid figures in Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation area crossed the 1,000 mark on Thursday. It also recorded the highest single-day spike of cases with 82 new patients. The total Covid patients’ tally now stands at 1,032.
Last Sunday, the civic body had recorded its previous highest single-day spike with 51 new cases. The civic authorities are keeping several market complexes closed on alternate days and urging standalone shops on the ground floors of houses and roadside stalls to shut down by evening.
Some offices of the school education department at Bikash Bhavan in Salt Lake was shut from Thursday after a family member of a senior official tested positive. The official, along with his department staffers, has been put in quarantine. A thorough sanitization is being conducted in the offices. Sources at Unnayan Bhavan said a directive had been issued barring entry of any outsider into the building. Only staffers will be able to enter after showing his/her identity card.
The Covid cases in Bidhannagar are increasing at a rapid rate despite demarcation of containment zones. Several new Covid isolation units (houses from where Covid cases are getting reported) are being identified everyday, but the number of locked down containment zones in Bidhannagar civic area is yet to be increased.
The Bidhannagar civic authorities are continuing their sanitization drive in the Covid-affected localities. The police are assisting them with the awareness drives across the township. Covid test camps are being held by several ward committees in their respective localities.
The local block committees are asking residents not to panic and to follow the prevention measures. “We are in touch with the civic authorities and reaching out to the block residents for any help required,” said Nilanjan Brahma, assistant secretary of FC block Abashik Samity.