Four more recover from COVID-19 in Bengal

Kolkata: Four persons were discharged from a hospital here on Monday, after they were found to have recovered from COVID-19, an official at the facility said.

Doctors released them as they tested negative for coronavirus twice, he said.

All four of them, residents of Tehatta in Nadia district, were admitted to Beliaghata ID hospital here during the first week of April, the official said.

Currently, around 10 COVID-19 patients are undergoing treatment at the hospital, he added.

On Sunday, too, four people were discharged from the hospital, having recovered from the disease.

With this, the total number of people to defeat the disease in the state stands at 26, though no official confirmation has arrived in this regard.

West Bengal has so far has reported 122 COVID-19 cases, according to the state health department. Of them, seven persons have succumbed to the disease.

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, however, pegged the total number of cases in the state at 152 on its website.

Meanwhile, normal services were suspended at the gynaecology and maternity wards of the state-run Calcutta Medical College and Hospital, after a patient there tested positive for the disease on Saturday, a senior official said.

Another private hospital in the city has also shut its operations, as five patients who had visited the facility tested positive for Covid-19 following their kidney dialysis.

"Operations have been been suspended for a week or so.

We will sanitise the entire building after which normal services will resume," Prashant Sharma, the managing director of Charnok Hospital, said.

PTI