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The SBI official said the employee was not attending office for the last 8-10 days and was later found to have contracted the deadly virus.

Government urges people to go only to approved centres.

Chattopadhyay, Nihar Ranjan, author

Several south Kolkata neighbourhoods, which had managed to stave off coronavirus for the past 40 days, are now on the city’s containment-zone map with fresh cases being reported from them. The affected portions include added areas — both sides of the Tolly canal, EM Bypass and Behala — and some upscale south Kolkata locations, like Lord Sinha Road and Hindustan Park.

A complaint of harassment and cyber bullying was lodged against a group of residents of a Sector-V housing complex — by a couple from the same complex — for not allowing domestic helps enter the premises.

Amid prevalent chaos and uncertainty over access to the essential services and commodities during the lockdown, we bring you the latest updates from your city.

Two women – one who runs a rice and fish curry pice hotel on the pavement opposite to Science College in Ballygunge and the other who owns multiple Chinese cuisine restaurants in the city - have emerged as Kolkata’s standout Covid heroes through their acts of compassion.

Around 500 vendors were shifted to a field from the market overnight as a measure to control the spread of COVID-19.