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The Bengal government on Monday asked private hospitals to increase the Covid bed count or reopen satellite centres they had been running last year for Covid patients, the request triggered by an alarming rise in the number of people testing positive for the coronavirus. Several private hospitals said they had closed the satellite units following a sharp drop in the number of Covid patients towards the end of last year, a trend that persisted for several more weeks before cases started rising again early March. “Private hospitals have been told to increase the number of beds. At the same ti...

The state government is considering taking the Covid-19 vaccination drive to big housing complexes and corporate houses so that more people can be inoculated against the disease that is spreading much faster than it did at the peak of the epidemic last year. The state health department on Monday met representatives of several private hospitals to discuss how off-site vaccination could be done in Calcutta. Till now in Bengal, Covid-19 vaccines are given only at designated hospitals and clinics, including those run by the Calcutta Municipal Corporation and other civic bodies. Private hospitals ...

Several private hospitals were filled with vaccine recipients in the 45 years to 59 years category on Saturday, most of them using the holiday to get themselves vaccinated. Hospitals expect a rush on Sunday too. Officials in the hospitals said they witnessed a sharp spike in the total vaccination numbers compared to the last few days, primarily because of a large number of office-goers taking the jab on Saturday. Peerless Hospital vaccinated 391 people on Saturday, with 223 of them in the 45 to 59 group. Belle Vue Clinic vaccinated 380 people, 190 of who were below 60. AMRI Hospitals vaccinat...

“It is clear that the working population prefers to take the jab at a time that does not coincide with their work schedule. We vaccinated about 120 people between 8am and 10am - 100 of them were between 45 and 59,” said R. Venkatesh, the regional head (east) of Narayana Health, which owns the RN Tagore hospital. At Belle Vue Clinic, 324 people were vaccinated on Thursday, compared with 124 on Wednesday. Nearly 80 per cent of the 324 people were between 45 and 59, an official of the hospital said. Though the bulk of the people in the 45-59 group took the jab in the morning, there were take...

Several private hospitals in the city have increased their Covid bed count because of a steady rise in the number of cases and an increasing percentage of people testing positive are being hospitalised. All these hospitals had reduced the number of Covid beds in December and January following a significant dip in the number of cases. But over the past week they have been converting non-Covid beds into Covid ones. Several other hospitals are considering doing the same because the existing Covid beds are filling up fast. Between Wednesday night and Thursday afternoon, 13 people who tested posit...