Normal Life Hit Across Nadia Due To Complete Lockdown

IG, South Bengal, Rajeev Mishra, DIG (Murshidabad Range) Sunil Kumar Choudhary, SP, Krishnagar PD, Zafar Ajmal Kidwai and Additional SP (HQ), Bidisha Kalita visited two containment zones –Ghurni and Roypara – to take stock of the present condition.

Biswabrata Goswami

Hummingbird News       

KRISHNAGAR, 8 AUG: Normal life came to a grinding halt in Nadia on Saturday as a complete lockdown was enforced across the district to stem the spread of COVID-19 cases.

All public transport, offices and other commercial establishments, barring those dealing with essential services, remained closed as the strict restrictions were clamped.

It is part of the twice-a-week lockdown imposed in the state since 23 July to break the chain of the infection.

Essential services like medicine shops and health establishments remained open as these were kept out of the purview of the complete shutdown. Petrol pumps are also allowed to remain open on the lockdown days. Security has been tightened to enforce the lockdown and police personnel were seen patrolling major traffic intersections across the district.

IG, South Bengal, Rajeev Mishra, DIG (Murshidabad Range) Sunil Kumar Choudhary, SP, Krishnagar PD, Zafar Ajmal Kidwai and Additional SP (HQ), Bidisha Kalita visited two containment zones –Ghurni and Roypara – to take stock of the present condition.

Later, Mr Mishra held a meeting with the senior police officials in the SP office.

Meanwhile, Nadia reported 72 Covid-19 positive cases in the last 24 hours on Saturday.

According to the Nadia district health department bulletin, the total Covid-19 positive cases stand at 1219 till today including 434 active cases and 554 discharged from Covid hospitals.

Though, no death has been reported in the last 24 hours, so the cumulative toll remained at 6.

The health department bulletin also revealed that 744 samples collected for RT-PCR and 454 samples for Rapid Antigen Test in the last 24 hours.

A total of 46078 samples have been collected for RT-PCR till today and the administration have received reports of 44262 samples. Reports of 1816 samples are still pending.

As per bulletin, 33 samples collected for Rapid Antigen Test tested positive out of 454 samples.

“This RAT report reveals only 7.26 % people are infected of novel coronavirus while the 92.74 percent of people are not affected by the dreaded virus,” a senior health official said.

As per the bulletin, 15 patients have been admitted in the isolation centers in the last 24 hours and the cumulative figure stands at 7670 where 7637 patients have already been discharged from the centers. “This means 99 % people have already been recovered which is remarkable compared to the recovery rate in the country,” an official said.