West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee s younger brother Ashim succumbs to COVID-19
Mamata Banerjee s brother Ashim Banerjee was undergoing treatment for COVID-19 at Medica Hospital in Kolkata. Mamata Banerjee
Updated: May 15, 2021, 12:49 PM IST
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee s younger brother Ashim Banerjee died due to COVID-19 on Saturday (May 15, 2021).
According to the reports, Ashim Banerjee was undergoing treatment for COVID-19 at Medica Hospital in Kolkata. The Chief Minister s brother had tested positive for COVID-19 and was undergoing treatment, Dr Alok Roy, Chairman, Medica Superspecialty Hospital in Kolkata informed.
In other news, on Friday, West Bengal recorded its highest single-day spike of 20,846 fresh COVID-19 cases, taking the total tally to 10,94,802. The death toll in the state rose to 12,993 after 136 more people died of COVID-19 infection on Friday, the state health department bulletin said.
Vaccinated people better protected but can transmit Covid-19, say doctors
Vaccinated people better protected but can transmit Covid-19, say doctors
One of the mistakes people make is not wearing the mask or letting their guard down once they get vaccinated. That is when they are most susceptible.
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A health worker gives a Covid-19 vaccine to an elderly woman. (PTI)
Covid-19 vaccines protect against serious illness but transmissibility can still take place and inoculated people can pass on the infection to others. That is why experts warn against complacency by people after they get their jabs.
One of the mistakes people make is not wearing the mask or letting their guard down once they get vaccinated. That is when they are most susceptible. After getting vaccinated, it takes about two weeks in most cases to develop antibodies.
Vaccinated People Can Contract COVID-19 and Pass it on To Others: Doctors Warn
After getting vaccinated, people might still get mild disease like cough, cold and running nose and it will be like a common cold
| 12 May 2021 1:13 PM GMT
Kolkata: As people are getting vaccinated, there is a chance that the virus can still infect these people and the inoculated people can pass on the infection to others.
Therefore, experts have warned against any complacency by people after they get their jabs.
One of the mistakes people make is not wearing the mask once they get vaccinated. That is when they are most susceptible. After getting vaccinated, it takes about two weeks in most cases to develop the antibodies.
The state government has provided private hospitals with a list of government-run Covid vaccination centres in the city where they can send recipients of Covid vaccines who have taken their first dose at their units and are awaiting the second.
A letter sent to the heads of private Covid vaccination centres on Friday had a list of 173 government-run vaccination centres.
Thousands of people who took their first Covid shot at private hospitals are calling up the hospitals every day asking when they would get their second dose.
All private hospitals stopped Covid vaccination on May 1, the day the new vaccination policy of the Centre took effect. In the new system, private hospitals have to procure vaccine doses directly from manufacturers.
Private hospitals hire doctors and nurses for Covid field units The health centres are focusing on large spaces where more than hundred beds can be set up for the patients
Private hospitals that are setting up Covid field hospitals in auditoriums and stadiums are recruiting nurses and doctors and redeploying doctors from departments where the patient count has dropped to run the temporary treatment centres.
The hospitals are focusing on large spaces where more than hundred beds can be set up for Covid patients, rather than opening off-site hospitals in multiple locations with only a handful of beds in each.