{"id":14886,"date":"2020-08-14T03:59:50","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T03:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=14886"},"modified":"2020-08-14T03:59:50","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T03:59:50","slug":"kolkata-covid-cases-kolkata-malayalee-stronghold-sees-sudden-spike-in-corona-cases-kolkata-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=14886","title":{"rendered":"Kolkata Covid Cases: Kolkata Malayalee stronghold sees sudden spike in corona cases | Kolkata News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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KOLKATA: The entry of Niva Park<\/a> to the containment zone list for the first time has prompted cops and the Kolkata Municipal Corporation<\/a> to shift focus to this congested pocket of south suburban Kolkata. The area is a perfect example of cosmopolitan Kolkata and has a strong Malayalee<\/a> population for decades.
Though Covid had hit the entire Mukundapur-Patuli-Baghajatin belt, this part of Kolkata had reported less than 10 cases till July. Thereafter, in July itself, the area showed a major spike that continued even in the first week of August. That this is the lone new entrant to the revised containment list shows that both KMC and cops are worried about the virus spreading further in areas closer to NSC Bose Road. With the area\u2019s proximity to Naktala, Netaji Nagar and Kudghat, KMC believes restricting movement in the area has become inevitable. Four fresh cases from around Niva Park (Usha Park and Hiren Sarkar Road) were reported on Tuesday.
The KMC is ready to work to ascertain that the Malayalee population, mostly based in Niva Park, Brahmapur<\/a> Rathtala and areas closer to Garia, feels like an equal respondent to the pandemic threat. \u201cWe need to reach out to the Malayalee population just like everyone else here. Despite the language barrier, we have begun counselling them and seeking their help in this fight,\u201d said Anita Kar Majumdar, a ward coordinator representing the area.
Y Padmanavan, a local resident, said that so far, they have been coping with the pandemic with help from all quarters.
\u201cWe are looking forward to more testing in the area even after we come out of the containment zone. The communities here are ready to support any effort,\u201d he said.
The sudden spurt in cases has been attributed to a number of issues. \u201cThe unlock led to free movement in the area. Several residents here are associated with hospitals and there is a large migrant population. The area under containment now is located close to the biggest market here. The chances of the virus spreading are greater in these areas,\u201d said an officer.
Arka Sarkar, an IT employee from Niva Park Phase I (Phase II is under containment), said there were some drawbacks to restricting market timings. \u201cUnlike in Naktala, where market timing was regulated, here the KMC carried out the occasional sanitization. People walked in groups, their masks around their necks. I feel the damage has been done,\u201d said Sarkar.
According to KMC officials, this belt has reported 60 positive cases in the past four weeks. A couple of patients with co-morbidity factors have died as well. The civic body is now worried about a 500m stretch between Kalibari bridge and Kudghat bridge. A KMC official, however, said the civic body was following the instructions from the state health department in declaring an infected area a containment zone. <\/div>\n

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KOLKATA: The entry of Niva Park to the containment zone list for the first time has prompted cops and the Kolkata Municipal Corporation to shift focus to this congested pocket of south suburban Kolkata. The area is a perfect example of cosmopolitan Kolkata and has a strong Malayalee population for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14886","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\/1597377591_photo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14886","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=14886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}