The sudden surge in the Covid 19 cases and fatalities, took a turn for the last two days with four more deaths being reported today. Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb in tweet said , while four persons died today, as many as 222 people tested positive. However, 142 patients have been released today.
If the four deaths of Monday as reported by the media is taken into account then total figure of deaths stands at 21.
On Monday the state government for some reasons failed to disseminate the information of four deaths- which was an important development-through Chief Minister’s social media handle–as was the practice. Education Minister Ratan Nath, however, gave information ‘selectively’ to a section of media. In absence of normal official channel information like that of CM’s twitter etc –as it happened at least twice in the past- media now will have to at large depend on the sources leaving enough space for misreporting and speculations.
It was learnt that out of four one was from AD Nagar in the city periphery while another was from South Tripura. The address of the other two could not be confirmed.
In the meantime, deadly Covid 19, of late, also started targeting the Covid 19 warriors weakening the line of defence as Sepahijala District Magistrate CK Jamatia and also police super Krishnendu Chakravertty a tested positive to the Covid 19 on Tuesday. With both them being now quarantined the Sepahijala district remains virtually truncated.
Sources said, along with CK Jamatia, six more officials of the DM office also tested positive and a lot of the officials were yet to be tested.
“As soon as the District Magistrate tested positive, most of the officials who used to stay in close proximity to the DM have undergone tests and six of them tested positive. Altogether, 80 samples have been tested at Bishalgarh sub-divisional hospital among which 11 reports came positive.
Chakravertty was asked by higher authorities to go for immediate Covid 19 test as soon as the DM found to be infected. Both the two top most district officials had been in close contacts due to official duties.
Apart from DM, SP and the officials, three more samples had been collected from the field survey” , SDMO Bishalagrh told this correspondent.
Both the SP and DM had been shifted to home quarantine as per the revised guidelines.
Meanwhile, in Agartala the East Agartala police station also opened its account in the Covid 19 tally after one police person tested positive on Tuesday. Highly placed police sources said, “Contact tracing process has been initiated to trace the close contacts and soon there will be according steps. All the police personnel have been asked to act according to the Covid 19 guidelines”.
As for break up highest covid cases was found in West Tripura district –76 followed by Gomati-39, Sepahijala -26, North Tripura -22, Khowai-21, South Tripura- 21, Dhalai-12 and Unakoti 5.
