West Bengal

Hundreds of people gathered in a mosque of West Bengal's Murshidabad for Friday prayers despite the nationwide lockdown in the wake of the Wuhan Coronavirus.

Unlike other states which are attributing the cause of death to the Wuhan Coronavirus in case the deceased has tested positive for the virus, the West Bengal government has set up an 'expert committee' to determine the cause of death after going through the test results, medical history and other documents of the deceased.

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee said she was surprised by the yellow colour of PPEs and said that doctors usually wear white or blue kits.

On April 7, 1 woman and 2 children, all three belonging to the same family had fled the quarantine facility at New Town in Kolkata

A BJP woman Panchayat candidate Shakuntala Haldar and her husband Chandra Halder were found dead in Kankasa village of Kultali, West Bengal under mysterious conditions

Radical Maulvi Pirzada Abbas Siddiqui read his apology from a sheet of paper while remaining visually remorseless and unregretful about his contentious comments.

There seems to be a strange dichotomy in the number of cases and deaths due to the Wuhan Coronavirus being reported from West Bengal.

The doctor was reportedly released only after he posted a Tweet praising the government.

Dr Harsh Vardhan’s letter dated March 25 reportedly said that Bengal has four testing centres, the National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases (NICED) and Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research (IPGMER) in Kolkata, Midnapore Medical College and the North Bengal Medical College.

An Asansol councillor from the ruling party TMC had appealed to Muslims on social media that the only way to defeat and cure coronavirus is to perform Azaan.