Counting underway for Bengal’s 6 Assembly seats, Trinamool leads in three
Counting is underway for bypolls to six Assembly constituencies in West Bengal. As per the early trends, Trinamool Congress led three of the six Assembly constituencies.
West Bengal reported another fatality due to Coronavirus as a woman infected with the COVID-19 died at a state-run hospital North Bengal Medical College and Hospital, on Monday, taking the total number of COVID-19 deaths in the state to two.
The 54-year-old woman had recently returned from Chennai, where she had gone for the treatment of her daughter. She breathed her last around 2 am at the hospital, where she was admitted for Coronavirus.
She was from Kalimpong in Darjeeling.
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According to the a health department officials, her daughter and the doctor, who was treating the woman, have been kept in quarantine.
Earlier, an elderly man from Kolkata had died from COVID-19 last week.
Three persons, including an Army doctor, were on Sunday detected with the coronavirus infection here – in the first case of a medico getting afflicted with the dreaded Covid-19.
The 52-year-old anaesthesiologist is now admitted at the Command Hospital, Alipore.
A 66-year-old man from north Kolkata also tested positive for the disease.
The third victim, a resident of Hooghly district now admitted at a private hospital, was detected with the disease on Sunday night.
In West Bengal the COVID-19 disease count has now gone up to 21 and two deaths.
The cases of novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) in India have surged to 1,071, according to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. The number of deaths have now risen to 29.
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