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KOLKATA: The surge in dengue cases in the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) areas of Salt Lake and Rajarhat-Gopalpur continued with 358 new infections reported in the last one week. From January, the 1,391 people have been affected in the BMC areas so far this year. According to civic officials, around eight to 10 cases are being reported from each ward everyday on an average. In the last one...

NEW DELHI: Delhi logged 535 fresh Covid-19 cases on Saturday with a positivity rate of 23.05%, according to data shared by the city government's health department. The city had logged 733 Covid cases -- the highest in more than seven months -- on Friday with a positivity rate of 19.93%. The national capital recorded 620 cases on August 26, 2022. On Thursday, 606 cases were recorded with a positivity...

NEW DELHI: Delhi on Friday recorded 733 fresh Covid cases, the highest in more than seven months, with a positivity rate of 19.93 per cent, according to data shared by the city government's health department.The health bulletin said two more Covid-positive people died in the city. However, "Covid finding was incidental", it added. The national capital had recorded 620 cases on August 26. On Thursday,...

NEW DELHI: Delhi recorded 509 fresh Covid-19 cases in a single day on Wednesday breaching the 25 per cent positivity rate mark.The positivity rate stood at 26.54 per cent, while no new fatalities were logged.Delhi had recorded 521 cases on Tuesday, the highest single-day rise since August 27 last year, and one fatality, PTI quoted data shared by the city health department.The positivity rate stood at...

NEW DELHI: For the second consecutive day, Delhi recorded more than 400 cases of Covid-19. On Sunday, the national capital registered 429 new cases and another fatality owing to the virus. As per the daily health bulletin, the positivity rate was 16.09%, a jump of around 2% from Saturday.Sunday's figure came from 2,667 samples. According to the state government, the primary cause of the death was "not...

KOLKATA: A fresh bout of violence erupted in West Bengal's Hooghly district on Sunday evening during the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s Shobha Yatra. The incident caused chaos and led to the throwing of stones. This comes after clashes had broken out during a Ram Navami procession in Howrah's Shibpur on Thursday.“Stone pelted at women and children during the Shobha Yatra. The state govt is taking no...

HOWRAH(WEST BENGAL): Fresh incidents of stone-throwing by unidentified people on police personnel, deployed in Howrah's Kazipara area which witnessed violence over the Ram Navami procession on Thursday, triggered tension in the area on Friday afternoon, an officer said.The police had to use batons to disperse a group of people who had gathered there. Prohibitory orders under Section 144 of CrPC were...

NEW DELHI: The number of Covid infections in the national capital was 295 on Thursday out of 2,363 samples collected and the positivity rate of 12.5%, the state government said.On Wednesday, 300 people had tested positive, and the positivity rate was 13.9%. Two Covid patients have died, the state health bulletin said.Talking about the deaths in Delhi on Wednesday, health minister Saurabh Bharadwaj said...