Gangasagar: Worried about the increase in the number of Covid-19 infections – including those from Omicron variants – in Bengal, CM Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said the state may have to turn off the school and college to examine the spread of the virus.
The final decision will be taken on Monday.
“We will review the situation on January 3.
If necessary, schools and colleges will be temporarily closed for a while.
However, we must remember that the Madhyamic and HS exam is scheduled,” Banerjee said in Gangasagar on Wednesday.
Educational institutions in the state have been reopened on November 16 after the gap of the pandemic induced by almost 20 months.
The state government has also raised the limitation of 11 nights at the movement of vehicles for Christmas and New Year celebrations from December 24 to January 1.
“We must be careful,” Banerjee said on Wednesday.
“We will also see if there is a need to go for the detention zone.
We can think of asking half of the workforce to work from home,” he added.
CM also expressed concern about passengers flying to Kolkata from abroad.
“Some of them can become an omicron carrier,” he said, even when the health department issued a circle of more stringent vigilance than incoming international leaflets.
Although hospital receipts have not soared, the laboratory throughout the city witnessed a very high level of participation.
“A week ago, the covid front level in our lab is between 5% and 10%.
Now, the tariff is around 30%.
This is a big leap in a very short time.
This can be a direct battle of celebrations and the latest meetings with great respect for the protocol Covid.
Another reason can be the emergence of a more infective strain, “Woodlands Multispeciality Managing Director & CEO Rupali Basu.
Although the overall test of the test for the country is around 2.
4%, the same has soared in Kolkata.
It has surged up to 22% from 2.
5% a week ago in the laboratory installed with AMRI hospital while in the Peerless lab, he has reached 17% from 4% last week.
The laboratory also gets many asymptomatic positive samples, including the entire family infection, increasing fear for local Omicron transmission.
“Because of the high omicron transmission, it is likely that we have more infected people in the community.
But we need to wait and watch a few more days to be clearer whether the third wave has begun and also if the surge caused by Omicron,” said Microbiologist Bhaskar Narayan Chaudhuri from Loanan hospital.
“Although the high level of transmission of omikron, people pamper in a unhindered celebration during the celebration season that leads to the creation of the ideal situation for the virus to spread.
We are at an important pandemic stage and the third wave will be unavoidable if we are not serious and careful , “said Anirban Public Health Specialist through Swasthya Bhawan.
“Even when the level of progress increases, receipts have not risen.
We need to see whether this increased trend continues,” said Narayana Health Region Director (East) R Venkatesh.
At the RN Tagore International Institute of Cardiac Sciences, the current level of progress is around 6.
6%