{"id":6381,"date":"2020-07-15T14:12:05","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T14:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=6381"},"modified":"2020-07-15T14:12:05","modified_gmt":"2020-07-15T14:12:05","slug":"twelve-frontline-covid-19-workers-have-died-in-bengal-mamata-banerjee-kolkata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=6381","title":{"rendered":"Twelve frontline Covid-19 workers have died in Bengal: Mamata Banerjee &#8211; kolkata"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>At least 415 frontline <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/india-news\/three-day-lockdown-in-goa-from-friday-to-curb-covid-19-spread\/story-eg6ixC4S4y3GnhtXboaWiI.html\" title=\"Covid-19 workers\">Covid-19 workers<\/a>, including policemen, have tested positive for coronavirus in Bengal till date. Twelve have died, chief minister Mamata Banerjee said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The last frontline worker to die was a deputy magistrate. The officer in her mid-30\u2019s who was overseeing the movement of migrant workers, died on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The list of infected frontline workers includes 268 policemen, 30 healthcare workers, 43 nurses and 62 other government employees. <\/p>\n<p>The chief minister announced that the government will provide jobs to one family member of each of the frontline workers who have died.<\/p>\n<p>The government had earlier announced a compensation of Rs 1 lakh to any frontline worker who is tested positive and an insurance coverage of Rs 10 lakh in case of death.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOut of the 403 persons who have survived, 284 persons have already received a sum of Rs 1 lakh each and the rest is bin processed. All 12 persons who died have received Rs 10 lakh each. The government has spent Rs 5.23 crore,\u201d Banerjee added.<\/p>\n<p>The government is also providing a badge and certificate to all frontline workers who tested Covid-19 positive and have survived. The facility would be extended to private frontline workers too.<\/p>\n<p>Till July 14, West Bengal reported 32,838 Covid-19 cases, out of which 980 have died.<\/p>\n<p><!--   section:kolkata mainSection:cities\/kolkata-->\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/kolkata\/twelve-frontline-covid-19-workers-have-died-in-bengal-mamata-banerjee\/story-lB3UvUF2p5rDrcB9rwI01O.html\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 415 frontline Covid-19 workers, including policemen, have tested positive for coronavirus in Bengal till date. Twelve have died, chief minister Mamata Banerjee said on Wednesday. The last frontline worker to die was a deputy magistrate. The officer in her mid-30\u2019s who was overseeing the movement of migrant workers, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kolkata"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/9ee25f96-c68f-11ea-b342-1c9eedb99f4f.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6381","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=6381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}