Kolkata, Aug 25 (PTI) West Bengal on Thursday logged 252 new COVID-19 cases, 61 less than the previous day, pushing the tally to 21,05,787, a health department bulletin said.

The COVID-19 death toll rose to 21,451 as two more persons succumbed to the disease, the bulletin said.

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The positivity rate for the day was 2.70 per cent as 252 infections were detected out of 9,325 samples tested, it said.

Bengal now has 3,236 active COVID-19 cases as 20,81,100 people have recovered from the disease so far, including 394 in the last 24 hours.

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The COVID-19 recovery rate now is 98.83 per cent.

The state had reported 313 new COVID-19 cases and three deaths on Wednesday.

A total of 2,62,35,933 samples have been tested for COVID-19 so far, it added.

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