Kolkata: Fresh Covid cases in Kolkata crawled up to 268 on Saturday, a sharp increase since last week when the number had dropped to 108 on October 16, according to the Bulletin Department of Public Health Daily.
This encourages the government to reintroduce the micro detention zone, with 54 in 24 North Pargrading and 14 in Howrah.
The 10 micro detention zones have appeared in Salt Lake, mostly spread in sector II and III, three have appeared in Lake Town.
There are 10 zones like that at Barrackpore.
In Howrah, the micro detention zone has appeared at 6pm on Saturday mostly at Andul Road (3), while others spread throughout the HOWRAH urban.
Police, meanwhile, set Naka points in various parts of the Kolkata for stricter night sidewalk enforcement.
Fresh cases stood in 242 in the city on Fridays and experts honed the warning warnings will continue to be spiral even though most of them can be asymptomatic, produce less hospitalization and death.
The country recorded 974 new cases and 12 deaths on Saturday.
The micro detention zone will be declared in places where the level of progress increases rapidly, the Head of Secretary of HK Dwivedi and NS Nigam Health Secretary told District Judges on Saturday.
Dwivedi requested district officials to improve health infrastructure so that positive covid patients can be accepted and regulated to provide oxygen supply.
However, the number of new cases of everyday, much higher according to KMC which has released its own data since Thursday.
He claimed that the number of cases fell up to 449 in a larger Kolkata region on Saturday.
According to the KMC coordinator Atin Ghosh, the numbers included data collected from all 144 ward regions.
Two data sets, one from the Ministry of Health and the other from KMC, created confusion, felt some experts.
“This is misleading when the numbers increase,” said an internal drug consultant.
In the KMC area, the affected amount in 318, between 257 does not show symptoms.
The affected amount stands in 362 in larger kolkata on Thursday.
It has risen to 319 on Friday, including 260 in the KMC area.
Spurt in the amount is waiting to occur and accelerated by the meeting during the pujas, said the Director of the King Dhar Cmri Pulmonology Hospital.
Another reason behind Spurt Sharp increased in the number of tests that had fallen during the festival, experts said.
From around 38,000 a month ago, it has dropped to 23,000 during the festival.
This has spin to 43,000 now.
The number of cases of asymptomatic, according to KMC, was established in 200 of the 242 cases recorded on Friday.
“Most cases will be asymptomatic because of vaccination immunity and herds,” said Professor Ipgmer Diplipra Sarkar.
(With input from Debasish Konar in Kolkata and Rupak Banerjee in Howrah)
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