COVID-19 claims second life in Bengal
Kalimpong/Kolkata,30 March(HS): After a lull for about a week, the deadly Corona Virus claimed its second life in West Bengal early today when a 45-year-old woman, a COVID -19 positive, breathed her last at the North Bengal Medical College and Hospital causing concern to the state authorities about the possibility of spread of the disease in North Bengal.
Altogether 22 people including a nine-month-old baby, a 12-year-old boy and four women have so far tested positive of COVID-19 in West Bengal with the condition of some of the remaining critical for some time.
According to official sources here today, after a 59-year-old resident of Dum Dum in North Kolkata became the first victim of Coronavirus in the state on 23 March, the 45-year-old woman, a resident of Kalimpong in Darjeeling Hill area tested positive following her return from Chennai about a week ago.
Though she was admitted to the North Bengal Medical College and Hospital at Siliguri after she was found positive and was treated in the isolation ward, her condition deteriorated last night before she breathed her last early this morning to become the second casualty of Coronavirus in the state.
Soon the Darjeeling district health authorities swung into action and identified all her close relatives and friends who came in contact with her on her return from Chennai and admitted them in the isolation ward of the hospital as a preventive measure.
The report of their early tests had already been sent to Kolkata to determine whether any of them was suffering from the deadly virus, the sources informed.
As the report of her death spread, panic gripped the entire Kalimpong town where the woman resided, and the people demanded immediate sanitisation of the entire township.
In the meantime, as the condition of the 66 year resident of Nayabad, who has been affected by COVID-19 and was being treated in a private hospital here, deteriorated further though the doctors had been trying their best to revive his condition, official sources informed.
