콜카타, 인도인도 on Saturday reported 22,775 과거의 새로운 Covid-19 감염 24 시간, 보건부 데이터 쇼, 증가하는 사례 수에 대한 전국 당국의 우려에 추가.
The data indicates that thickly populated metros, such as the national capital 뉴 델리, financial center Mumbai and Kolkata in the east, are seeing some of the sharpest rises.
In the eastern state of West Bengal, infections rose to 3,450 마지막으로 24 hours with at least 1,950 cases reported in Kolkata, the capital. Sixteen 오미크론 cases have been reported in West Bengal.
Kolkata’s municipal corporation declared 17 micro containment zones in residential clusters where more than 5 infections have been reported. People living in the zones are not allowed to leave the area to try to contain the spread of the disease.
Ajoy Chakrobarty, the state’s director of health services, said he was holding meetings with private hospitals to ensure health facilities are ready to deal with the rising number of cases.
India witnessed a devastating second wave of Covid-19 last year when the daily average number of new cases peaked at around 400,000.
Caseloads had dropped significantly since then. For many months the national tally remained well under 10,000 하루의 경우.
지금, officials and medical experts fear the Omicron variant might fuel a third wave of the disease.
