Kolkata: The number of fresh covid cases in Bengal has dipped under the sign of four images for the first time since December 28 last year, when the third wave driven by Omicron has begun, with the state on Monday recorded 641 cases, which increased slightly to 736 on the day Tuesday.
The level of participants, too, fell below 2%, with Tuesday recording was only 1.87%, after the day 39,347 tests.
In Kolkata, new cases fell down 100, with only 75 new infections recorded on Monday.
That number again crossed 100 barriers on Tuesday, with 108 new cases registered.
The city count below 100 happened for the first time since mid-August 2021.
Experts interpreted the numbers as proof that Bengal is now at the end of the third wave tail, which is indicated by sharper, but shorter, compared to the deadly second wave .
The last time the country recorded a new sub-1,000 case on December 28, when the number had increased to 24,287 at the peak of the wave on January 9, with Kolkata recorded 8,712 cases that day.
Both were the highest surge in one day recorded since the beginning of the pandemic.
The curve has been down since then, both in Bengal and in Kolkata.
WB: New Covid Case Drops Under 1k, + Vity Rate below 2%
