BENGAL RECORDS 113 DEATHS DUE TO COVID-19; HISTORIAN HARISHANKAR VASUDEVAN DIES OF SUSPECTED PANDEMIC

Kolkata, (thestates.news) Bengal recorded 113 deaths with 14 more succumbing to Covid-19 pandemic and new confirmed cases accounted for 153 on Sunday, while historian Harishankar Vasudevan
died of suspected pandemic in a city hospital.
A State Government Health bulletin said with 153 more cases, total confirmed cases touched 1939 in the state, while the count of active cases accounted for 1337.
Altogether 18 laboratories in the state are conducting tests for Covid-19, it stated.
While 113 people died of Covid-19, 72 passed away due to Comorbidity.
Altogether 417 people have been discharged so far, while total number of samples tested stood at 43,414, the bulletin informed.
Meanwhile, historian Professor Harishankar Vasudevan
died of suspected pandemic in a city hospital, even as
a three-member Central team, the third so far, arrived here to visit
Covid hotspots across the city and coordinate with the West Bengal
government to combat Coronavirus.
Prof historian Harishankar Vasudevan (68), who had been admitted to
Amri Covid hospital at Salt Lake died late last night with suspected
Coronavirus.
He was on ventilation support for the past two days before
his death. He was admitted on April 4.
The state health department was examining the causes of his death,
official sources said.
Two other deaths were also reported from the same hospital in the past 24 hours.
One of them was a woman.
Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar deeply condoled the passing away of Prof Hari Vasudevan.