Kolkata, Oct 7 (PTI) West Bengal on Friday logged 150 new COVID-19 cases pushing the tally to 21,15,445, a health department bulletin said.

One more person died in the last 24 hours, taking the total COVID-19 fatality to 21,513, the bulletin said.

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The positivity rate for the day was 2.81 per cent as 5,343 samples were tested.

The state currently has 2,026 active COVID-19 cases while 20,91,906 people have recovered from the disease including 322 persons during the day.

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The COVID-19 recovery rate now is 98.89 per cent.

On Thursday the state had reported 69 new COVID-19 cases and one death.

A total of 2,65,44,775 samples have been tested for COVID-19 so far, it added.

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