Kolkata: Though there is no indication of any spike in Covid-19 cases in Bengal, multiple cases of the virus has surfaced after a lull. A 15-year-old boy was admitted to a hospital off EM Bypass in the latest case.

Sources said another patient admitted to a nursing home in Kankurgachhi had tested positive for SARS-CoV-2. There were also reports of two other cases from Mograhat in Diamond Harbour. This takes the active case count to four in Bengal at present. Until about a week ago, there was only a single active case.The teenager from Rishra was brought to Peerless Hospital's OPD on Saturday morning with complaints of high-grade fever, cough, loose stool, vomiting, and severe dehydration.

The respiratory panel test detected SARS-CoV-2, negating the other 14 viruses that the biofire test can detect."The boy did not have any respiratory distress, but his fever, cough, and other gastrointestinal complaints were not resolving despite being treated by a local doctor. He came in a bad shape due to severe dehydration. The abdominal issues were more prominent than the respiratory issues," said paediatric critical care specialist Saheli Dasgupta, under whom the boy is admitted.

Currently, the teenager is being treated in a single isolated cabin following the protocol. "This is the first SARS-CoV-2 detected in our lab since Sept 2024," said microbiology head Bhaskar Narayan Chaudhuri at Peerless.Sources in the health department said a 20-year-old woman and a child from the same family in Mograhat tested positive for the virus on May 21. While both are fine and did not need hospital treatment, district health officials are closely monitoring the locality for anyone suffering from ILI (influenza-like illness), and the surveillance will continue for at least two more days.

Their samples had been collected as part of a pan-India surveillance. Another positive woman from Kolkata was treated and discharged from Woodlands Hospital in the second week of May. "This patient did not have any comorbidity and did not require oxygen support. While there is no reason to panic as this virus has become mostly self-limiting to healthy individuals, it could cause severe infection in patients with comorbidities, particularly COPD," said critical care specialist Soutik Panda of Woodlands Hospital.(Inputs from Monotosh Chakraborty)Kolkata: Though there is no indication of any spike in Covid-19 cases in Bengal, multiple cases of the virus has surfaced after a lull. A 15-year-old boy was admitted to a hospital off EM Bypass in the latest case. Sources said another patient admitted to a nursing home in Kankurgachhi had tested positive for SARS-CoV-2. There were also reports of two other cases from Mograhat in Diamond Harbour.

This takes the active case count to four in Bengal at present.

Until about a week ago, there was only a single active case.The teenager from Rishra was brought to Peerless Hospital's OPD on Saturday morning with complaints of high-grade fever, cough, loose stool, vomiting, and severe dehydration. The respiratory panel test detected SARS-CoV-2, negating the other 14 viruses that the biofire test can detect."The boy did not have any respiratory distress, but his fever, cough, and other gastrointestinal complaints were not resolving despite being treated by a local doctor.

He came in a bad shape due to severe dehydration. The abdominal issues were more prominent than the respiratory issues," said paediatric critical care specialist Saheli Dasgupta, under whom the boy is admitted.Currently, the teenager is being treated in a single isolated cabin following the protocol. "This is the first SARS-CoV-2 detected in our lab since Sept 2024," said microbiology head Bhaskar Narayan Chaudhuri at Peerless.Sources in the health department said a 20-year-old woman and a child from the same family in Mograhat tested positive for the virus on May 21. While both are fine and did not need hospital treatment, district health officials are closely monitoring the locality for anyone suffering from ILI (influenza-like illness), and the surveillance will continue for at least two more days. Their samples had been collected as part of a pan-India surveillance. Another positive woman from Kolkata was treated and discharged from Woodlands Hospital in the second week of May. "This patient did not have any comorbidity and did not require oxygen support. While there is no reason to panic as this virus has become mostly self-limiting to healthy individuals, it could cause severe infection in patients with comorbidities, particularly COPD," said critical care specialist Soutik Panda of Woodlands Hospital.(Inputs from Monotosh Chakraborty)