Covid-19 cases continued to go up in north Bengal with the region recording 2,350 infections in the past 24 hours.

The surge in cases is also leading to more deaths in the region.

Nawang Thendhup Sherpa, the joint BDO of Englishbazar block, who got infected with the disease on April 21 breathed his last on Sunday night. Sherpa, 48, had initially been treated in Malda but was shifted to a facility in Siliguri later.

In Jalpaiguri, a training programme — theoretical and practical — for doctors and paramedical staff commenced on Monday so that they could provide proper critical care treatment to Covid patients.

Sushanta Roy, the officer on special duty of state health & family welfare department in north Bengal, said the on-hands (practical) training would be conducted by specialists from Calcutta at the Covid-19 hospital set up at the Biswa Bangla Krirangan.

“Doctors, nurses, paramedics and technicians from five districts of north Bengal will attend the training in batches,” Roy added.