Kolkata, Jul 20 (UNI) The West Bengal Government on Monday announced of imposing complete lockdown in the state
for two days every week amid a spike in COVID-19 cases.
State Home Secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay said this week complete lockdown will be in force on Thursday and Saturday.
Yesterday, the West Bengal Government extended Statewide Containment Zone lockdown till July 31.
The State Government sent an advisory to the District Magistrates, Director General of Police and Commissioner of Police, Kolkata, in this regard this evening.
" DMs may take a view on continuing lockdown: town-wide or zone-wise depending on the local situation, " the order said.
" They can do it for 5-7 days. State-wide containment zone-based lockdown continues till 31 July, " it added.
The Covid-19 toll in Bengal touched 1112 on Sunday with 36 more deaths and the confirmed cases jacked up to 42,487 with a record 2278 new cases.
According to the State Health Department Bulletin, the count of discharged accounted or 24,883 with 1344 recovering yesterday.
While the discharge rate in the state stood at 58.56 per cent, the count of active cases accounted for 16,492.
Total number of samples tested accounted for 7,03,284 with 13,471 tested on Sunday.
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