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West Bengal: Darjeeling health dept ramps up health infra to tackle COVID-19 third wave ANI | Updated: Jun 27, 2021 17:45 IST
By Tarak Sarkar
Siliguri (West-Bengal) [India], June 27 (ANI): Amid the possibility of a third COVID-19 after the emergence of the Delta Plus variant, the Darjeeling district health department is ramping up the healthcare infrastructure to combat the third wave, which may affect the children.
Dr Sandip Sengupta, Dean, Student Affairs, North Bengal Medical College (NBMC) said that elaborate arrangement had been made to increase the beds, especially at the pediatric ward. The administration has also prepared the first 28-bedded safe home for the children. Doctors appealed to the people to take Covid vaccines to fight against Covid-19 as they believe that this will help to reduce the number of Covid cases especially when the third wave is approaching, he said.
Members of NDRF patrol along a shore ahead of Cyclone Yaas in Digha
BHUBANESHWAR/KOLKATA: With cyclone Yaas, which has now intensified into a very severe cyclonic storm, on course to hit land in Balasore in Odisha on Wednesday noon, a massive evacuation drive was conducted in Odisha and West Bengal on Tuesday, moving over 20 lakh people from low-lying area to safer zones.
While West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee claimed about 11 lakh were evacuated, the Odisha government said close to 10 lakh people were moved. Kolkata, which continues to shudder at the memories of destruction left behind by cyclone Amphan last year, breathed a sigh of relief after the Met department declared the landfall site to be about 300km away in Odisha.
Virologist Shahid Jameel quits Centre’s panel on genome sequencing
Last week, Jameel had written a piece on the second wave of coronavirus in the New York Times .
By PTI| Published: 17th May 2021 1:40 pm IST Noted virologist Dr Shahid Jameel (Photo: commons.wikimedia.org)
New Delhi: Days after pointing out that scientists are facing “stubborn resistance to evidence-based policy making”, noted virologist Shahid Jameel quit as the head of INSACOG, a central government panel which conducts genome sequencing of coronavirus.
Jameel announced his plan to step down in a meeting of INSACOG held on Friday, said two officials who were part of it.