{"id":8510,"date":"2020-07-23T05:21:02","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T05:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=8510"},"modified":"2020-07-23T05:21:02","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T05:21:02","slug":"kolkata-corona-slips-into-old-age-home-in-new-town-kolkata-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=8510","title":{"rendered":"Kolkata: Corona slips into old-age home in New Town | Kolkata News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>KOLKATA: Residents of Snehodiya \u2014 the senior citizens\u2019 home in <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/New-Town\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" data-ga=\"within_article-topic_link|topic_New-Town\" frmappuse=\"1\">New Town<\/a> \u2014 have been asked not to move out of the campus and their kin have been requested to limit their visits to prevent the spread of Covid-19 infection. The move came after one of the inmates tested positive and was hospitalized earlier this week. <br \/>The patient, a 70-year-old man had mild <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/viral-fever\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" data-ga=\"within_article-topic_link|topic_viral-fever\" frmappuse=\"1\">fever<\/a> and complained of breathing trouble when he was tested and found <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/coronavirus\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" data-ga=\"within_article-topic_link|topic_https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/coronavirus\" frmappuse=\"1\">Covid<\/a> positive. His wife was also tested, but she was negative and continues to live in the same apartment where she stayed with her husband at the senior citizens\u2019 home. The authorities have contact-traced few persons on the premises with whom the patient had come in contact and they have been asked to stay in <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/home-isolation\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" data-ga=\"within_article-topic_link|topic_home-isolation\" frmappuse=\"1\">home isolation<\/a>. <br \/>\u201cThe man who contracted the disease often used to step out to and visit the local market. It is possible, he may have contracted the disease from there. His condition is, however, stable,\u201d said an official of Housing and Infrastructure Development Corporation (Hidco), the custodians of the home. <br \/>Debasis Sen, the chairman and managing director of HIDCO, said that after the man was tested positive, the entire complex was fumigated and sanitized. \u201cWe have urged residents not to panic,\u201d he said. <br \/>\u201cWe fumigated the room where the patient lived and have asked all others who had come in contact with him to stay in isolation till we test each of them. Doctors have been consulted. We have also advised all the residents to not to step out of the complex and get all the essentials delivered to their apartments,\u201d said Sen. <br \/>Inaugurated in June last year, the G+10 building has around 150 odd serviced apartments. <br \/>An official said that a HIDCO and two NKDA staffers also tested Covid-19 positive. They are in home quarantine and their offices were sanitized. <\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/kolkata\/corona-slips-into-old-age-home-in-new-town\/articleshow\/77116561.cms\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOLKATA: Residents of Snehodiya \u2014 the senior citizens\u2019 home in New Town \u2014 have been asked not to move out of the campus and their kin have been requested to limit their visits to prevent the spread of Covid-19 infection. The move came after one of the inmates tested positive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8511,"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-8510","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\/1595481663_photo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8510","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=8510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}