Overview
- State officials confirm infections in a doctor, two nurses, and a health staffer linked to hospital care, bringing active cases to five.
- ICMR has deployed a BSL-3 mobile laboratory from NIV Pune to Kolkata’s Beleghata ID Hospital to process and decontaminate samples before RT-PCR testing.
- About 100 contacts are under home quarantine, with more than 60 test results reported negative so far and roughly 30 individuals monitored more closely.
- One of the first two infected nurses has regained consciousness while the other remains comatose, with both in critical care under investigational treatment protocols.
- A bat survey will start in Nadia to seek the outbreak source, Jharkhand has issued a surveillance advisory, and initial positives at AIIMS Kalyani were reconfirmed by NIV Pune.