KOLKATA: The third Covid wave has seen the quickest surge and fall in daily new cases in Kolkata with the number of affected rising eight times in just 11 days and sliding back over the next 13 days. This was far sharper than the surges witnessed during the peaks of the first and second second waves.
During the second wave last May, the city had seen cases rise ten times over a period of a month-and-half and it had taken more than a fortnight for the number to slide back significantly.
