Bengal Covid Curbs: Bengal's Covid restrictions include closing of all schools and colleges, as well as cinema halls, gyms and swimming pools, and beauty salons. Attendance at government and private offices will be capped at 50 per cent.
West Bengal's fresh Covid-19 cases have nearly doubled in 24 hours with the state reporting 2,128 new infections on Thursday, a day after it registered 1,089 cases.
RAT tests to help clear piled-up bodies in hospitals, says Mamata Banerjee
RAT tests to help clear piled-up bodies in hospitals, says Mamata Banerjee
Mamata Banerjee said the government has decided to conduct Rapid Antigen Tests to quickly find out whether a person died of coronavirus or not and perform the last rites
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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee interacts with state health officials in Kolkata (Source: PTI)
Following reports that bodies of suspected COVID-19 patients are getting piled up in hospitals of West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said that delay in getting RT-PCR test results has led to such a situation.