by our special correspondent :
The woman, in her early 20s, returned from Scotland on March 16 and was subsequently admitted to the Beliaghata ID Hospital in the city with symptoms of COVID-19, the official said.The official, however, could not confirm whether she was on home quarantine as per the protocol after returning from abroad.
Before this, two persons with travel history to abroad have been reported positive for the virus in West Bengal.Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government decided to shut all educational institutions in the state — schools, colleges, universities, madarsahs, Sishu Shiksha Kendra and Madhyamik Shiksha Kendra — till March 31. However, the examinations will be held as per schedule, West Bengal government said.
However, all board examinations will be held as per schedule, chief minister Mamata Banerjee announced here.A total of 68,761 persons have been screened at Kolkata and Bagdogra airports
The decisions wer taken “in view of the evolving situation on the spread of COVID 19, the advisories issues by WHO, UN and central government and as a matter of abundant precaution to check its spread” in the state, she said. Six people are in isolation in hospital while 1,977 are under home surveillance among the 2,56,682 people screened in West Bengal since the global outbreak of coronavirus.
No one has tested positive for the fatal disease in the state so far, according to a health department official. Of the half-a-dozen patients hospitalised with suspected coronavirus symptoms, four — three Indians and a Peru national — have been kept at the state’s referral health facility for infectious diseases ID Hospital Beliaghata.
