India News | Bengal Logs 272 New COVID-19 Cases, 1 Death
Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. West Bengal on Tuesday logged 272 new COVID-19 cases, 77 more than the previous day, pushing the tally to 21,05,222, a health department bulletin said.
Kolkata, Aug 23 (PTI) West Bengal on Tuesday logged 272 new COVID-19 cases, 77 more than the previous day, pushing the tally to 21,05,222, a health department bulletin said.
The new cases were detected out of 10,008 samples tested, with a single day positivity rate of 2.72 per cent, it said.
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One more fatality pushed the COVID-19 death toll to 21,446.
The state now has 3,477 active COVID-19 cases, while 20,80,299 people have recovered from the disease including 429 during the day, it said.
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The COVID-19 recovery rate in the state now is 98.82 per cent.
Bengal had reported 195 new COVID-19 cases and four deaths on Monday.
A total of 2,62,16,484 samples have been tested for COVID-19 so far, it added.
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