India News | Bengal Logs 33 Fresh COVID-19 Cases, One Fatality

Kolkata, Mar 19 (PTI) West Bengal on Saturday reported 33 new cases of COVID-19, 29 less than the previous day, pushing the tally to 20,16,770, a health department bulletin said.

One more person succumbed to the infection in the last 24 hours, taking the toll to 21,194.

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The state had logged 62 coronavirus cases and one fatality on Friday.

As many as 139 patients recovered from the disease since Friday, taking the total number of COVID-19 recoveries to 19,94,594.

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West Bengal currently has 982 active coronavirus cases.

Since Friday, 7,561 samples were tested for COVID-19 taking the total number of such clinical examinations to 24,589,716, it said.

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