India News | Bengal Logs 493 New COVID-19 Cases

Kolkata, Jun 26 (PTI) West Bengal reported fresh 493 fresh COVID-19 cases on Sunday, pushing the tally to 20,24,972, a health department bulletin said.

The COVID-19 toll remained at 21,216 as there was no report of any fatality due to the disease in the last 24 hours, it said.

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West Bengal currently has 3,777 active COVID-19 cases, while 19,99,979 people have recovered from the disease, including 212 people on Sunday, the bulletin said.

The COVID-19 recovery rate now is 98.77 per cent while the daily positivity count was 5.11 per cent.

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The state had reported 235 new COVID-19 cases and two fatalities on Saturday.

A total of 2,55,18,831 samples have been tested for COVID-19 so far, it added.

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