India News | Bengal Logs 374 New COVID-19 Cases, One More Fatality

Kolkata, Sep 25 (PTI) West Bengal on Sunday recorded 374 new COVID-19 cases, which took the tally to 21,13,246, a health department bulletin said.

The death toll rose to 21,496 as one more person succumbed to the infection, it said.

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Altogether, 7,049 samples were tested for the infection during the day, and the positivity rate stood at 5.31 per cent.

West Bengal now has 3,123 active cases.

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The state recorded a recovery rate of 98.84 per cent as 202 people were cured of disease during the day, taking the total number of recoveries to 20,88,627, the bulletin added.

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