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Four more recover from COVID-19 in Bengal

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Four more recover from COVID-19 in Bengal
Kolkata, Apr 13 () Four persons were dischargedfrom a hospital here on Monday, after they were found to haverecovered from COVID-19, an official at the facility said.

Doctors released them as they tested negative forcoronavirus twice, he said.

All four of them, residents of Tehatta in Nadiadistrict, were admitted to Beliaghata ID hospital here duringthe first week of April, the official said.

Currently, around 10 COVID-19 patients are undergoingtreatment at the hospital, he added.

On Sunday, too, four people were discharged from thehospital, having recovered from the disease.

With this, the total number of people to defeat thedisease in the state stands at 26, though no officialconfirmation has arrived in this regard.

West Bengal has so far has reported 122 COVID-19cases, according to the state health department. Of them,seven persons have succumbed to the disease.

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, however,pegged the total number of cases in the state at 152 on itswebsite.

Meanwhile, normal services were suspended at thegynaecology and maternity wards of the state-run CalcuttaMedical College and Hospital, after a patient there testedpositive for the disease on Saturday, a senior official said.

Another private hospital in the city has also shut itsoperations, as five patients who had visited the facilitytested positive for Covid-19 following their kidney dialysis.

"Operations have been been suspended for a week or so.We will sanitise the entire building after which normalservices will resume," Prashant Sharma, the managing directorof Charnok Hospital, said. SCHRMS RMS


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