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West Bengal

Schools, colleges in West Bengal to remain closed for physical assemblies till Nov 30

| @indiablooms | Nov 03, 2020, at 05:32 am

Kolkata/IBNS: The West Bengal government on Monday decided to extend certain anti-coronavirus lockdown measures till Nov 30.

During this period, physical teaching-learning assemblies in schools, colleges and universities will continue to be disallowed.

The Mamata Banerjee government ordered that swimming pools will continue to remain closed.

Cinemas, theatres and multiplexes will operate with up to 50 per cent of their seating capacity in areas outside containment zones.

With 3,957 new cases in the last 24 hours, Bengal's Covid-19 tally crossed 3.81 lakhs.

There were 57 deaths during this period, which pushed the total fatalities in the state to 6,957.

 

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