Covid19 status in west Bangla

2. Abstract :
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a highly infectious disease, was first
detected in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. The disease has spread to 210
countries and territories around the world and infected (confirmed) more than
two million people. In India, the disease was first detected on 30 January 2020
in Kerala in a student who returned from Wuhan.
On 17th March an eighteen year-old man with recent travel history to UK has
been tested positive for coronavirus in west Bengal. He is undergoing
treatment at Beliaghata hospital in Kolkata. He began showing symptoms of
COVID-19 since morning.

3. West Bengal District Wise COVID-19 Data
District
Total
Cases Recoveries Deaths Actives District
Total
Cases Recoveries Deaths Actives
Kolkata 94752 85202 2435 7115 Cooch Behar 9933 9301 57 575
North 24 Parganas 89483 80611 1794 7078 Purba Bardhaman 9163 8581 78 504
Howrah 28582 26682 817 1083 Bankura 9005 8574 84 347
South 24 Parganas 28504 26539 515 1450 Dakshin Dinajpur 7524 7184 55 285
Hooghly 21954 19857 370 1727 Birbhum 7232 6724 64 444
Purba Medinipur 17015 15738 219 1058 Alipurduar 6913 6706 80 127
Paschim Medinipur 16880 15595 238 1047 Purulia 5712 5629 35 48
Nadia 15267 14053 197 1017 Uttar Dinajpur 5388 5014 55 319
Darjeeling 13697 12599 159 939 Jhargram 2222 2092 13 117
Paschim Bardhaman 11883 11017 115 751 Kalimpong 1629 1571 19 39
Jalpaiguri 10932 9976 112 844 Unknown 66 63 3 0
Maldah 10815 10271 92 452
Total 434563 398952 7714 27897
Murshidabad 10012 9373 108 531

4. 22%
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Kolkata
North 24 Parganas
Howrah
South 24 Parganas
Hooghly
Purba Medinipur
Paschim Medinipur
Nadia
Darjeeling
Paschim Bardhaman
Jalpaiguri
Maldah
Murshidabad
Cooch Behar
Purba Bardhaman
Bankura
Dakshin Dinajpur
Birbhum
Alipurduar
Purulia
Uttar Dinajpur
Jhargram
Kalimpong

5. Facilities
• the state has 56 laboratories approved
by Indian Council of Medical Research for
testing. The total number of testing in
West Bengal is still lagging in comparison
with states with similar economic stature,
for example, the state of Rajasthan has
conducted more than 5 lakh tests as of
08/06/2020, whereas the state of West
Bengal has done around 2.6 lakh tests till
July 20, West Bengal has the capacity of
testing little more than 9000 samples in a
day whereas Rajasthan has built the
capacity of testing ~12000 samples per day.
Details of Testing Lab
Method Private Lab Public Lab Grand Total
CBNAAT 2 2 4
RT-PCR 13 18 31
TRUENAT 3 18 21
Grand Total 18 38 56

8. DAILY CUMULATIVE ACTIVE CASES
Note: 17th March to 17th Nov

9. Phase of lockdown
 Phase 1: 25 March 2020 – 14 April 2020 (21 days)
 Phase 2: 15 April 2020 – 3 May 2020 (19 days)
 Phase 3: 4 May 2020 – 17 May 2020 (14 days)
 Phase 4: 18 May 2020 – 31 May 2020 (14 days)

10. West Bengal Government Interventions
• Weekly death rate is 1.48%.Both death rate and Infection rate are showing a downward trend.
• Additional 1974Oxygenated beds and 805ICU/HDU beds will be added within November 2020
• Status of availability of beds for COVID positive patients in government and private hospitals is
available at Health & FW Department’s website: www.wbhealth.gov.in
• Safe Homes : An initiative by the Government of West Bengal for care and treatment of
asymptomatic/mild symptomatic COVID patients for whom home isolation is not possible /advisable
• As per State Government advisory Satellite Health Facilities are being developed by private
hospitals in close vicinity of their hospitals as separate health facility for treatment of
asymptomatic/mild symptomatic COVID patients. This intervention is expected to free beds in the
hospitals for serious patients.

11. Reference
https://covidindia.org/west-bengal/
www.wbhealth.gov.in
https://en.wikipedia.org/
https://www.facebook.com/wbdhfw/
https://twitter.com/wbdhfw

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