Former mayor of the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation, who is now the chairperson of the board of administrators (BOA) of the civic body,Krishna Chakraborty tested positive for coronavirus on Monday.
According to Chakraborty, she has very mild symptoms and has isolated herself at home. “I got myself tested and the report has come out positive. I am in quarantine at home and apart from weakness have very little of the other symptoms of the disease,” she said.
Chakraborty was part of the team from the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation that kicked off the Covid-19 vaccination drive on January 16 at the Duttabad urban primary health centre.
She had not taken the vaccine shot, unlike three of her colleagues.
Tapas Chatterjee, the former deputy mayor of the civic body who is also on the board of administrators, had tested positive for Covid-19 and had to be hospitalised in September.
Apart from Chakraborty and Chatterjee, Nirmal Dutta, the councillor of Ward 38 that comprises areas in Duttabad, had also tested positive for Covid-19 and was quarantined in a New Town facility. Dutta was leading from the front in terms of conducting sanitisation drives in the area that comprises swathes of tenements bordering Salt Lake.
Sudhir Saha, a former mayoral council member, has recovered from Covid recently.
Covid-19 has claimed the life of one civic official with Subhash Bose, the councillor of Ward 6, succumbing in August. He was in his mid-fifties. Ward 6 includes Teghoria, Atghara, Kaikhali and Chinar Park. These places had seen a steady rise in infection at that time.