6 detected with UK, South African strains of coronavirus in West Bengal

By HT Correspondent | Edited by Zara Khan

PUBLISHED ON MAR 08, 2021 10: 27 AM IST

As a minimum six persons who landed in Kolkata in the remaining week of February maintain examined certain for two international strains of the coronavirus, a top health official has confirmed.

“While 5 were detected with the UK strain, one has been detected with the South African strain. All of them are international travellers,” acknowledged the official.

All three variants of the coronavirus that maintain turn into a international dispute were detected in India, B.1.1.7, first realized in the UK; B.1.351, which is now dominant in South Africa; and P.1, which has spread in Brazil.

“All samples were light in the remaining week of February. The implications of the genome sequencing were shared with us on Sunday. Four of the sufferers are admitted in a assert-fade clinical institution in Kolkata,” acknowledged the official.

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While one case of the UK strain turned into detected from Kolkata, two every were detected from Nadia and South 24 Parganas district. The South African strain turned into detected in a affected person from Malda in north Bengal.

The Union govt had earlier acknowledged that the South African and Brazilian strains can extra without considerations infect an individual’s lungs than the UK mutation.

West Bengal has except date registered extra than 570,000 Covid-19 instances, of which 3,163 instances are mute energetic. As a minimum 10,278 persons maintain died to this point. The assert has vaccinated round 1.55 million other people except date.

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By HT Correspondent | Edited by Zara Khan

PUBLISHED ON MAR 08, 2021 10: 27 AM IST

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UPDATED ON MAR 08, 2021 12: 51 AM IST

• “You’ve got played with the lives of other people. Khela sesh (the game has ended),” acknowledged Modi who outdated Bengali phrases a number of instances while speaking in Hindi.

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• Chakraborty played the lead feature in the movie MLA Fatakesto where he turned into forged as an anti-social who takes up the dispute of becoming a legislator and brings about modifications in seven days.

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ANI, Kolkata

PUBLISHED ON MAR 07, 2021 06: 12 PM IST

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By hindustantimes.com | Edited by Shankhyaneel Sarkar, Hindustan Events, Contemporary Delhi

UPDATED ON MAR 07, 2021 05: 17 PM IST

• The Top Minister went on to explain to the huge gathering the the clarification why the BJP is the most interesting event in the country which turned into fashioned keeping Bengal’s culture and thinking at its core.

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PUBLISHED ON MAR 07, 2021 07: 19 AM IST

• Each the BJP and the the TMC maintain accused one one more of resorting to violence in the fade up to the meeting elections in West Bengal.

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By hindustantimes.com | Written by Kanishka Sarkar, Hindustan Events, Contemporary Delhi

PUBLISHED ON MAR 06, 2021 07: 26 PM IST

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UPDATED ON MAR 06, 2021 07: 23 PM IST

• Award-winning Bengali Dalit writer, ex-IPS officers and distinguished actors are amongst the few novices who Bengal’s ‘didi’ has given an different.

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By hindustantimes.com | Edited by Shankhyaneel Sarkar, Hindustan Events, Contemporary Delhi

UPDATED ON MAR 05, 2021 09: 22 PM IST

• TMC releases first list of 291 candidates for West Bengal meeting polls, CM Mamata Banerjee to contest from Nandigram

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By HT Correspondent | Edited by Zara Khan

PUBLISHED ON MAR 01, 2021 01: 10 PM IST

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UPDATED ON FEB 28, 2021 09: 27 PM IST

• The opposition leader is moreover scheduled to fulfill senior TMC minister Firhad Hakim and maintain talks concerning the upcoming Bengal polls.

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PUBLISHED ON FEB 28, 2021 09: 30 AM IST

• TMC and BJP maintain brushed apart the Left rally as insignificant. While the TMC claims CM Mamata Banerjee will return to energy for the third time, BJP says the elections are bi-polar and there will not be any save apart for the Left.

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PTI, Kolkata

PUBLISHED ON FEB 27, 2021 07: 47 PM IST

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ANI

PUBLISHED ON FEB 27, 2021 06: 31 PM IST

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UPDATED ON FEB 27, 2021 05: 36 PM IST

• The BJP lodged a complaint in the Phoolbagan police situation. Senior BJP leaders of the assert rushed to the placement to grab stock of the dispute.

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