{"id":14554,"date":"2020-08-13T01:22:20","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T01:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=14554"},"modified":"2020-08-13T01:22:20","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T01:22:20","slug":"west-bengal-corona-cases-west-bengal-records-1-lakh-covid-19-cases-with-2931-new-infections-kolkata-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=14554","title":{"rendered":"West Bengal Corona Cases: West Bengal records 1 lakh Covid-19 cases with 2,931 new infections | Kolkata News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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KOLKATA: Bengal on Tuesday crossing the 1-lakh mark with 2,931 new Covid-19 infections<\/a> since the first case was reported on March 17. However, with a high discharge rate<\/a> at 72.3%, which is more than the national average of 69.8%, the state\u2019s active cases dropped to 25,846. On Monday, there were 26,031 active cases in Bengal.
Kolkata, too, mirrored a similar trend. While 711 new cases were reported on Tuesday, 877 patients were discharged. There are 6,615 active cases in Kolkata. <\/p>\n
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On Tuesday, Bengal reported 49 deaths \u2014 18 of them in Kolkata. The fatality rate<\/a> in Bengal remains 2.1%, which is shade higher than the national average of 1.9%. However, Kolkata\u2019s fatality rate remains significantly higher at 3.3%. In Bengal, 89% of the patients who died due to Covid had co-morbidities.
Bengal tested 27,015 samples on Tuesday, its highest daily testing till now since NICED started testing by sending samples to NIV Pune in late February. Bengal has tested 11.5 lakh samples till now, with 8.7% of the samples testing positive. \u201cThe positivity rate is varying. In our lab, we are seeing a declining trend over the past seven days. However, it is too early to predict,\u201d said Bhaskar Narayan Chaudhury, microbiologist at Peerless Hospital.
\u201cThe spike in daily cases is quite high over the past few weeks. This infection is spreading at an alarming rate. This was expected given the nature of the virus and the fact that there are no more effective containment measures. We could be moving towards the peak slowly,\u201d said Debkishore Gupta, an infectious diseases control specialist.
Sukumar Mukherjee, who is part of the Covid expert committee, felt it is too early to gauge any trends immediately. \u201cWe cannot draw any conclusion with the daily results. We will have to take a longitudinal view with its cumulative effect. It is true that 25,000-odd active cases despite the spike in testing is a healthy sign but crossing the 1-lakh mark is not a good sign,\u201d he said.
Sanjukta Dutta, head (emergency medicine), Fortis Hospital, said: \u201cThe Covid case load has significantly increased. But I would like to see the trend for a few more weeks to comment on whether we are peaking or stabilizing. Due to the nature of this infection, mainly asymptomatic or mild cases, many people are not getting tested.\u201d
\u201cI do not think that this virus is going to slow down any time soon. We have not come across any virus that has remained for such long period. There have been many models predicting how the virus will behave. But I think it has not stuck to these models. So, it is has become difficult to say when we will hit the peak,\u201d said Apurba Ghosh, director of the Institute of Child Health. <\/div>\n

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KOLKATA: Bengal on Tuesday crossing the 1-lakh mark with 2,931 new Covid-19 infections since the first case was reported on March 17. However, with a high discharge rate at 72.3%, which is more than the national average of 69.8%, the state\u2019s active cases dropped to 25,846. On Monday, there were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kolkata"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/1597281743_photo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}