India News | 53 New COVID Cases in Bengal
Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. West Bengal on Sunday logged 53 new COVID-19 cases, two less than the previous day, with the tally rising to 20,18,313, a health department bulletin said.
Kolkata, May 1 (PTI) West Bengal on Sunday logged 53 new COVID-19 cases, two less than the previous day, with the tally rising to 20,18,313, a health department bulletin said.
One more fatality due to the infection raised the death toll to 21,202, it said.
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Twenty-one people recuperated from the disease in the past 24 hours, taking the total number of recoveries to 19,96,714.
The recovery rate was 98.93 per cent, while the positivity ratio stood at 0.50 per cent.
The state currently has 397 active patients and six of them are now in hospital, it said.
At least 10,650 samples were tested for COVID-19 during the day, the bulletin added.
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