Kolkata, October 21: West Bengal’s Covid tally rose to 15 on Thursday after a Kolkata Municipal Corporation official tested positive for the infection due to lack of safety protocols to be followed by people during Durga Puja celebrations last week. became 83,646. A health department bulletin said the death toll rose to 19,021 with fourteen new deaths.
Atin Ghosh, health in-charge of the KMC board, told reporters that the spike, though anticipated, was due to a large section of people doing puja shopping and walking in pandals without wearing masks and overcrowding at some places. “The figures are not that alarming, although the cases of covid are increasing continuously. Many cases are asymptomatic and we will have to see by next week,” Ghosh explained.
Meanwhile, Kolkata recorded the highest number of 232 new cases, followed by North 24 Parganas with 143, the bulletin said. On Wednesday, a total of 867 cases were reported and on Thursday the caseload dropped slightly to 833.
However, according to the bulletin, the daily figure came down to 726 on Tuesday and went up to 107 on Thursday. The state now has 7,535 active COVID-19 cases, while 15,57,090 people have recovered from the disease, including 775 in the last 24 hours.
The percentage of positive cases out of the samples tested on Thursday stood at 2.52 per cent, the bulletin said. The recovery rate in West Bengal stood at 98.32 percent. The mortality rate was 1.20 percent.
Of the 14 deaths, seven were reported from North 24 Parganas and five from Kolkata. A total of 1,88,02,105 samples have been tested so far in West Bengal, the bulletin said.
33,018 samples were tested for coronavirus on Thursday. A total of 5,92,500 people were vaccinated on Thursday as the cumulative figure of those vaccinated rose to 6.88 crore.
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