COVID-19: 1st Positive Case Reported in Kalimpong, Total Toll in West Bengal Goes Up to 18

Kalimpong, March 29, 2020:

A 44-year-old resident of Kalimpong, West Bengal tested positive of COVID-19. State Health department officials informed.

According to sources, the woman had recently returned from Chennai and later tested positive for COVID-19. It needs mention here that this is the first positive case of coronavirus in the city.

West Bengal in total reported three coronavirus cases on Saturday, the other two being that of two elderly women who had attended a wedding in East Midnapore where a COVID-19 patient was present, taking the number of those who had tested positive in the state so far to 18.

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The two elderly women — one 56-year-old and the other 76-year-old — had attended the same wedding in Egra, East Midnapore, earlier this month where a 66-year-old COVID-19 patient, a resident of Nayabad on Kolkata’s southeastern fringes, was present too. The 56-year-old is the mother of the groom and the 76-year-old is an aunt of the groom’s father.

The two women who tested positive on Saturday evening were already in quarantine Egra Superspeciality Hospital. The 66-year-old, who tested positive on Wednesday, is now getting treated at a private hospital in southeast Kolkata.

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The chief medical officer of health, East Midnapore district, Nitail Mondal said that thirteen people who attended the wedding had been kept in hospital quarantine and their samples were sent for tests. The results of 11 came negative but two tested positive.

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