Kolkata: Bengal has 24,287 fresh covid cases on Sunday, breaking a record of a single day of all time, and Kolkata, with 8,712 cases, solving the previous highest from six days ago, as the third wave of pandemics driven by Omicron showed a steady, steep surge and there are no slowdown signs.
The biggest daily surge in cases in Bengal, until Sunday, on May 14, 2021, with 20,846 cases.
Experts warn that the third wave peak has not arrived, where the daily case burden can easily doubled and inpatiently increases.
A convincing factor is that the level of hospitalization and mortality is still low, especially when compared to the destructive second wave.
But the projection calculated from the show near the future that the absolute number will only rise for a while now.
Placing things in perspective, on May 14 last year, the level of his position was 29%, with 70,051 samples tested.
Sunday’s peposititivity level is 33.8%, with 71,664 tests carried out.
But there were 144 deaths on May 14, (0.7% of the total number of cases), compared with 18 (0.07%) reported on Sundays.
“Infection spreads like a fire,” said an official of Swasthya Bhawan, added, “Don’t be surprised if we reach double what we see today in the next two weeks.
Inpatient and mortality, will also begin to increase gradually.
But we intend to climb testing to detect as much as possible.
“Senior health officials in December have notified all health care stakeholders about the possibility of fresh daily cases rose to 30,000 in two to three weeks.
On Sunday, the city also recorded a high number of Covid of all time, with 8,712 cases appearing in the last 24 hours, exceeding 4,759 cases recorded in 4.
Even during the second wave, the highest daily number below.
4,000 (highest is 3,990 on May 3).
The source in the Ministry of Health said the level of pepositives in Kolkata as high as 50%, with several laboratories that record even 70%.
“We tend to continue to solve more records if we continue to improve testing and use the right test kit,” said Sumon Poddar, Associate Professor and unit responsible for the Microbiology Laboratory at the Institute of Child Health.
Fresh cases in neighboring countries 24 parganas have crossed a sign of 5,000.
24 Parganas, Howrah, Hooghly and Western Burdwan are other district reporting cases in four digits.
“Cases increase exponentially due to the dominance of omicron variants.
Daily case expenses will reach 35,000 per day immediately.
We need behavior that corresponding Covid, wearing masks and controls at public meetings,” said Anirban Public Health Specialist, which was attached to Swasthya Bhawan.