A CISF personnel checks uses a metal detector to check a passenger at Kempegowda International airport after authorities eased restrictions, amid the ongoing Covid-19 nationwide lockdown, in Bengaluru. (Source: PTI)
6 years ago
Jun 03, 2020
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A man who returned from Delhi recently tested positive for Covid-19 in Sikkim, taking the number of cases in the state to two, a senior health official said on Wednesday.
The 56-year-old man, who returned from the national capital on May 25, was found to be Covid-19 positive on Tuesday night, Health Secretary Pempa Tshering Bhutia told PTI.
He was lodged at a quarantine facility in the Mining area of East Sikkim on arrival from Delhi, he said.
However, his two direct contacts living in the same room have tested negative.
West Bengal registered the highest single-day spike in Covid-19 cases on Tuesday with 396 people testing positive for the disease in the last 24 hours, the state health department said.
Ten persons died due to the disease since Monday evening, raising the death toll in the state to 263, it said.
Eight deaths were reported from Kolkata and one each from Birbhum and North 24 Parganas districts.
The state government maintained that 72 coronavirus-infected patients died due to co-morbidities, and Covid-19 in those cases was "incidental".
Of the 396 fresh cases, 116 are from the metropolis. North 24 Parganas and Howrah accounted for 74 and 49 new cases respectively, the bulletin said.
At least 104 coronavirus patients were discharged from various hospitals since Monday, taking the number of recoveries in the state to 22,410, the bulletin said.
U.S. President Donald Trump told Prime Minister Narendra Modi the U.S. would ship 100 donated ventilators to the South Asian nation. Brazil reported a record day of deaths.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo warned that mass protests against police violence could accelerate the spread of coronavirus and undo weeks of social-distancing efforts. Even with the unrest, New York City still plans to begin reopening Monday. The U.K. will publish details of its plan to impose a 14-day quarantine on all overseas rivals, effective June 8.
More than 6.3 million people have been infected by the virus across the world, with over 378,000 of them dead.
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