Kolkata Dec 26 PTI At least four returnees from the United Kingdom on Sunday tested positive for COVID-19 upon their arrival at Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport here following which they were placed under isolation at a city hospital a senior health official said Two men aged 44 and 24 a 31-year-old woman and a five-year-old boy are among the new patients They have been admitted to Beliaghata ID Hospital he said Their samples for genome sequencing will be collected on Monday the official said So far six people including a medical practitioner have tested for the Omicron strain of coronavirus in West Bengal PTI SCH ACD ACD
Kolkata Oct 25 PTI Grief-stricken family members could hardly hold back tears at the Kolkata airport as bodies of five trekkers from West Bengal who died in inclement weather in Uttarakhand were brought back to the city on MondaySome cried inconsolably while many others couldnt muster the courage to look at the coffins which contained the lifeless bodies of their near and dear onesShubhayun Das Richard Mondal Tanumoy Tiwari Bikash Makal and Sourav Ghosh had begun the expedition from Harsil in Uttarkashi district of Uttarakhand on October 11 and were to reach Chitkul via the Lamkhaga PassThey however reportedly went missing after heavy rain battered the northern state for nearly three days beginning Sunday night with the Kumaon division bearing the brunt of itThe trekkers bodies which were taken to their homes in Nepalganj and Baruipur in South 24 Parganas from the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport after identification had been spotted by rescue teams on October 22The cumulative death toll in rain-related incidents in Uttarakhand mounted to 77 on Sunday evening PTI DC RBT RBT
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