Kolkata, Sep 30 (PTI) West Bengal on Friday logged 262 new COVID-19 cases pushing the tally to 21,14,521, a health department bulletin said.

The COVID-19 death toll rose to 21,506 as one more person succumbed to the disease, it said.

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The positivity rate for the day was 3.61 per cent as 7,262 samples were tested.

The state now has 3,169 active COVID-19 cases while 20,89,846 people have recovered from the disease including 285 in the last 24 hours.

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

Bengal had reported 284 new COVID-19 cases and two deaths on Thursday.

A total of 2,65,11,721 samples have been tested for COVID-19 so far.

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