A minister said new infections reported on Thursday were indicative of people who got infected between October 19 and 23Active cases or Covid patients under treatment in Bengal are above 8,000 again since September 17, 41 days ago. Bengal on Thursday reported 990 new Covid-19 infections, 845 recoveries and nine deaths, causing a rise by 136 in its active cases to 8,109. Bengal now has 5.23 per cent of India’s active cases, and is fifth among states with the most such cases. In the past 33 days since the state snapped out of a 97-day streak of constant fall in active cases ahead of the Puja season on September 26, there has been a net rise of 435 in Bengal’s active cases, from the 7,674 of September 25. Seventeen Bengal districts reported zero deaths.

Source: The Telegraph October 28, 2021 22:32 UTC