Doctors and scientists have flagged off concerns about a section of vaccinated population becoming silent carriers and infecting those yet to be inoculated. Several instances were reported of vaccine recipients developing symptoms within days of vaccination and testing positive but doctors are more concerned about others who may have contracted the virus but are asymptomatic .
14-fold COVID-19 rise in West Bengal
With masks vanishing from public life and Covid protocols being ignored in election rallies there has been a more than 14-fold rise in the number of Covid cases in West Bengal.
| 10 April 2021 1:47 AM GMT
KOLKATA: With masks vanishing from public life and Covid protocols being ignored in election rallies and meetings there has been a more than 14-fold rise in the number of Covid cases in West Bengal in the last one month. The State government has started imposing restrictions on public life to check the spread of the virus.
The Covid-19 case count in Bengal this year shows the infection rate has doubled since last year. While it took two months for the number to increase 10 times last year, this year it has happened in less than a month. Going by the health department statistics on May 24 last year, the state had recorded 208 fresh daily cases. It took a little more than two months for the daily cases to rise 10-fold when Bengal report
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