Mamata Banerjee claimed that the covid demise price in West Bengal has diminished to 1.94% (File)
Kolkata:
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday stated an advisory board arrange by the state authorities has described organising Durga Puja festivities this 12 months as a “massive problem” amid the COVID-19 disaster, and advocated erecting open marquees (pandals) as a precautionary measure to comprise the virus unfold.
Ms Banerjee stated the proposals of the “International Advisory Board” shall be mentioned intimately throughout a gathering with puja committees on September 25.
“They’ve given us an excellent suggestion that the pandals shouldn’t be lined in order to permit sufficient air flow. Locations aside from the place idols shall be stored needs to be left open from the highest.
“We’ve got accepted their proposal and in the course of the assembly with puja committees on September 25, we are going to maintain additional discussions,” Ms Banerjee advised reporters on the state secretariat.
She stated the board, headed by Nobel laureate Abhijeet Vinayak Ms Banerjee, throughout a digital assembly on Monday, lauded the state authorities for the best way wherein it has handled the pandemic.
“It has expressed satisfaction on varied grounds, together with the rise within the variety of COVID-19 beds and the rising variety of pattern checks,” Ms Banerjee stated.
The board has additionally suggested in opposition to reopening instructional establishments within the state.
The Chief Minister claimed that the coronavirus demise price in West Bengal has diminished to 1.94 per cent and her authorities is making efforts to decrease it much more.
“Out of the whole deaths, 86 per cent are due to comorbidities. The demise price in our state has come right down to 1.94 per cent (from round 9 per cent). We’ve got to carry it down additional and we are going to do it for positive,” she stated.
Ms Banerjee additionally stated the positivity price within the state is eight.21 per cent, whereas it’s eight.53 per cent throughout the nation, whereas the discharge price is 86.40 per cent in opposition to the nationwide determine of round 77 per cent.
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