The number of active Covid cases in Bengal rose by 2,494 to 18,603 on Friday. The state recorded 3,648 new infections and 1,146 recoveries during the day. ...

Bengal has barely two days’ stock of Covid-19 vaccine doses and several centres in Calcutta had to suspend vaccination on Friday and a few others said they could not administer the jabs on Satur...

The Bengal government has decided to put in place all activities that were followed during the peak of Covid-19 pandemic in October last year with novel coronavirus cases making an alarming rise in th...

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Officials of the health department have expressed concern over the steady rise in Covid-19 cases across north Bengal in recent weeks. As voting for Assembly elections in the region will start from Ap...

The state government is considering taking the Covid-19 vaccination drive to big housing complexes and corporate houses so that more people can be inoculated against the disease that is spreading much...

The Bengal government on Monday asked private hospitals to increase the Covid bed count or reopen satellite centres they had been running last year for Covid patients, the request triggered by an alar...

Scores of people above 45 who turned up at vaccination centres in Salt Lake, Narayanpur, Rajarhat and nearby areas for their shots, returned home without getting the jabs because they had not pre-book...

“It is clear that the working population prefers to take the jab at a time that does not coincide with their work schedule. We vaccinated about 120 people between 8am and 10am - 100 of them were...

Bengal on Thursday reported the highest number of new Covid-19 infections detected in a day this year, at 1,274, taking the total number of active cases above 6,000 for the first time since January 26...