{"id":8070,"date":"2020-07-21T18:59:59","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T18:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=8070"},"modified":"2020-07-21T18:59:59","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T18:59:59","slug":"bengal-no-let-up-in-infection-record-2282-cases-added","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=8070","title":{"rendered":"Bengal: No let-up in infection, record 2,282 cases added"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This was the third straight day of 2,000-plus cases, and the sixth straight record increase. As a result, the active case load crossed 17,000 to settle at 17,204. The toll, meanwhile, stood at 1,147.<\/p>\n

A senior government official said the administration was planning to set up Covid-19 units in every private and state-run hospital to withstand the rise in cases. A directive to improve infrastructure and accommodate separate units for Covid-19 patients had been already issued to all state-run hospitals, he added.<\/p>\n

Most of the latest deaths (34) and infections (78 per cent) were reported from the main hotspot in South Bengal \u2014 Kolkata; its adjoining districts North 24 Parganas, Howrah, and South 24 Parganas; and Hooghly. The Assistant Superintendent of National Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata, was among those who tested positive.<\/p>\n

In North Bengal, the three districts of Malda, Dakshin Dinajpur, and Darjeeling continued to remain a source of concern, reporting almost 80 per cent of the latest cases. The only other death outside the South Bengal districts occurred in Jalpaiguri.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the state health bulletin reported a marginal improvement in the recovery rate amid a relentless rise in cases. The discharge rate rose to 59.01 per cent following the release of a record 1,535 people from hospitals. It was the fourth record release from hospitals, and took the number of recovered patients to 26,418.<\/p>\n

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By: Express News Service | Kolkata | Published: July 21, 2020 1:12:31 pm West Bengal on Monday added a record 2,282 Covid-19 infections that pushed up its caseload to 44,769, and reported 35 deaths, as the infection curve continued to steadily climb upwards. This was the third straight day of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8070","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\/Coronavirus-Bengal.jpegw759.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8070","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=8070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}