Kolkata: 47-year-old marketing executive who has no covid symptoms tested positive five days ago.
The Kasba resident must be tested for the swab sample because it requires a Covid negative certificate to take flights to other cities at work.
The second dose of the covishield is due.
His asimptomatic wife was too positive two days later.
A 67-year-old patient who will undergo gallbladder surgery a few days ago was tested positive while undergoing a Covid test before the hospital operation.
Retied College Teacher has got both vaccine doses.
Because he doesn’t have any symptoms he is now under the quarantine of the house and will undergo surgery as soon as he tests negative.
Both are not isolated.
Laboratories throughout the city come across more asymptomatic positive cases or people who only have very light symptoms.
“Not that these people have any symptoms, but they need a Covid negative certificate because of the travel or surgical procedure.
We get more asymptomatic positive samples in our lab,” said Sudiptop Mitra, CEO, peerless hospital.
“This time there is an increase in the number of samples from asymptomatic people, who with very light symptoms such as low-level fever are testing positive.
Even though this is a good indication, we still need to use all possible guards,” said Microbiologist Sharly Sharma Ganguly, which is attached to Amri Hospital Lab.
“The reason will include vaccination coverage, indication of flock immunity,” said the microbiologist Bhaskar Narayan Chaudhuri in the lab attached to the Peerless Hospital.
Pulmonolgist Raja Dhar from the CMRI Hospital saw a ray of hope in this trend and quoted the coverage of vaccination as one of the reasons behind this.