Kolkata: At least 26 commandos and national security supervisory staff – everything is fully vaccinated – in the city center new agency has been diagnosed with Covid-19 in the last four days.
While NSG officials said they were all asymptomatic and were under quarantine in the hub, the State Health Department official had reached them and offered assistance.
According to sources, bulk testing was carried out by the body on their personnel who returned to the hub either from leave or from other units in other countries last week according to the official protocol.
That’s when a number of personnel began to test the positive virus.
The test was carried out at the state road centers and after the report began to exit, he moved the Ministry of Health officials.
Toi tried to contact the Director of Health Services for official responses, but he could not be contacted.
Debasis Sen, Chairman of the New Kolkata City Development Authority, under his jurisdiction, the new City NSG Hub fell, said a meeting was held with NSG officials on Tuesday to discuss this issue.
“We will clean up their campuses and will ask if they need support from us.
We held a meeting with one of their officials on Tuesday to ensure that all Covid protocols were maintained,” said Sen.
A senior NSG official confirmed about testing positive personnel but assured that the situation was controlled and that everything was safe.
“They are all asymptomatic and there is no major inconvenience.
In accordance with the protocol, we test a group of people and also keep them coming from outside to our hub in quarantine mandatory for 10 days.
The situation is controlled and no one needs to be feared,” the official said.
There are around 400 officials, staff and their families on campus.
NSG officials became the frontline worker, given a vaccine before being discharged for civilians.
The doctor said that in terms of breakthrough infections, no one panicked.
“That, which is guaranteed double, tends to have mild infections.
If all vaccinated, symptoms must be mild and mortality opportunities will be low,” said RN Tagore International Institute of Cardiac Sciences Intensivist Sauren Panja.
Covid outbreaks in the new city hub NSG, 26 infected
