<span style="color: #222222;">In West Bengal, the State health department has instructed mandatory tuberculosis tests of recovered covid patients after their discharge from hospitals or after testing negative in home isolations. This directive has been forwarded to all government and private Covid hospitals and testing laboratories of the state. <br />''<br />''The directive says it is mandatory to test for tuberculosis of the recovered covid patients in between one to three weeks of their recovery. <br />''<br />''The State director of health Dr Ajoy Chakraborty says, in case of covid-19, the immunity of the patients reduces simultaneously, which makes them much more vulnerable for an infection of tuberculosis. He said, 132 Covid survivors of the state have been infected from TB just in weeks of their recovery.</span><br />''