Kolkata: City recorded 1,954 new Covid infections on Friday, collecting as many as 57% of the total fresh bengal infection (3,451), with health officials signaling “cluster outbreaks” to be one of the main reasons for a steep increase in the city.
who has, by multiple accounts, 16% participant level.
There were no new Omicron cases that were confirmed despite more than 500 samples, mostly from Kolkata, were in sequential genomes.
Experts, however, said the third wave of pandemic, driving an Omicron, was near, and that this variant would likely replace Delta in a matter of weeks.
The numbers – a 62% increase in Bengal from the previous day and Kolkata was shade above 79% – synchronized with a trend of surge in the last few days.
Some infection clusters have emerged: Dr.
R Ahmed Dental College and Hospital in Sedah has recorded 25 positive (both Faculty Trainees and PG), while around 100 people attached to the East train have been tested positively.
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The surge will increase the pressure on the hospital even if the extraordinary number consists of mild cases.
Responsible behavior is very important if we do not want to trigger or increase the crisis.
While the overall level of front of the Bengal rose from 5.5% to 8.5%, the sources in the Ministry of Health said the level of participants for Kolkata at this time was around 16%, with rates ranging from 30% and 40% in several laboratories.
“Duplication time has dropped dramatically to around 1.5 days, and infection spread at lightning speed,” said Senior Doctor Sukumar Mukherjee, a member of the Bengal Global Advisory Board to fight Covid-19.
“Another concern is that Omicron is more invasive even after vaccination and previous infection.
We need to attract our socks to fight a surge that might grow rapidly in front,” he added.
Ajay Chakraborty, state health service director, said there were no new genome sequencing reports (confirming Omicron) received during the day, but a sudden surge in the case of the possibility because of the new variant.
“Two cases of omicron are more discarded today, so the active case of the current variant is 13, of the overall 16 cases,” he added.
Microbiology of Bhaskar Narayan Chaudhuri from Peerless Hospital said they also came to all people who worked in the same office in testing positively together, besides the family who tested a positive cluster.
The Indian Dental Association (IDA) said that nearly 5,000 dental surgeons in Bengal have been tested positively in recent days.
“Five omicron-positive patients under our care are really fine,” said Anima Haldar, Principal, ID & BG Hospital.