Two shopping malls in the city will start vaccination on their premises on Wednesday. Recipients can drive in or walk in without booking a slot.
South City Mall on Prince Anwar Shah Road will begin a drive-in vaccination while Acropolis Mall will offer walk-in vaccination. AMRI Hospitals will provide vaccinators and doctors, apart from the doses.
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Opening vaccination sites in places like malls, which are frequented by many Calcuttans, creates a feeling of comfort among recipients. Many who have a mental block in visiting clinics to take the jab could find it easier to get vaccinated at a place they have visited multiple times before, said a Calcuttan.
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FICCI calls upon industries to extend help in Covid fight According the chamber, several Calcutta-based business houses have already come up with support and more are expected to join
Business chamber Ficci has called upon industries to extend help to mitigate the challenges faced by Bengal in managing the pandemic. It has asked its members to provide supplies of masks, oxygen cylinders and concentrators, apart from re-skilling paramedics in life-saving medical devices such as ventilators.
Several Calcutta-based business houses have already come up with support and more are expected to join, the chamber said. The interventions by the industry has so far been pivotal in easing the supply of medical oxygen, setting up first-level Covid care facilities and importing protective gears such as 3-ply masks.
The Covid rapid antigen test of a man with symptoms of the disease twice came back negative. On Sunday, his condition worsened to such an extent that he had to be admitted to the ICU of a private hospital.
Another elderly man with symptoms of Covid called up several testing facilities but no one agreed to collect samples from home.
Many Covid patients are becoming critical because they have to either wait for the RT-PCR test result for days or are undergoing the rapid antigen test that often throws up false negatives.
Testing centres, government as well as private, are allegedly not telling people that rapid antigen test results are not confirmatory. Reports of the rapid test often lead to a false sense of safety, which result in patients’ condition becoming critical. Metro finds out the problems and the reasons.