Kolkata, Jun 12 (PTI) Bengal reported 123 fresh COVID-19 cases on Sunday pushing the tally to 20,20,296, a state health department bulletin said.

The daily positivity rate was 1.60 per cent as the 123 cases were detected out of 7,695 samples tested on the day.

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The state had recorded 139 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday.

The COVID-19 death toll remained at 21,205 as no new fatality due to the infection was reported in the last 24 hours.

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Bengal currently has 731 active COVID-19 cases, while 19,98,360 people have recovered from the disease, including 54 on Sunday, the bulletin said.

A total of 2,54,04,508 samples have been tested for COVID-19 so far, it added.

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