Even as Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee worked frantically taking personal tours of Kolkata to spread social-distancing awareness, Bengal registered yet another corona infection case with a middle-aged person from Nayabad area of the State capital testing positive for the dreaded virus, Health Department sources said.
Though the man has no travel history to Corona-affected countries he recently joined a wedding party at Egra town in East Midnapore where people returning from such countries had assembled, sources said adding the administration had started taking information about the people who joined the said party. The entire family of the affected person has been home-quarantined.
The man is in a critical condition, the doctors said. The Thursday’s case takes the total number of corona infections in Bengal to 10. The State has witnessed one Corona related death with the victim succumbing to the disease last week.
Meanwhile the Chief Minister has written to her counterparts of 18 States expressing concern about the stranded migrant workers from Bengal.
“The Chief Minister has requested the other Chief Ministers to ensure adequate food and medical facilities for the migrant workers from Bengal who are stranded there … because the State administration cannot reach out to them due to the ongoing lock-down,” a senior government official said adding Bengal Chief Secretary had been asked to sent the details of the stranded persons to their counterparts of those eighteen States.
Banerjee who had been working frantically to prevent Corona invasion in Bengal on Thursday personally visited the prominent markets of Kolkata to educate the buyers and sellers about social distancing.
Alighting from her vehicle the Chief Minister was seen asking people to stand at least a metre apart from each other even as she personally drew chalk circles for the buyers to stand within those circles. She visited Posta, Jaan Bazaar, Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Road and Gariahaat
Market where she advised the people on social distancing and wearing masks.
Elsewhere the State Government on Thursday decided to open the School of Tropical Medicine as yet another facility for testing Corona infections. According to sources STM has been provided with about a thousand kits from Pune Institute of Virology and is likely to be functional immediately.