India News | Bengal Logs 624 New COVID-19 Cases, 14 More Deaths
Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. West Bengal's COVID-19 tally rose to 15,80,530 on Sunday as 624 more people tested positive for the infection while 14 new fatalities pushed the death toll to 18,977, a health department bulletin said.
Kolkata, Oct 17 (PTI) West Bengal's COVID-19 tally rose to 15,80,530 on Sunday as 624 more people tested positive for the infection while 14 new fatalities pushed the death toll to 18,977, a health department bulletin said.
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Kolkata recorded the highest number of new cases at 179, followed by North 24 Parganas (128), the bulletin said.
The state now has 7,421 active COVID-19 cases, while 15,54,132 people have recovered from the disease, including 634 in the last 24 hours.
The percentage of positive cases out of samples tested went down slightly to 2.30 per cent on Sunday from 2.33 per cent on Saturday, the bulletin said.
The discharge rate in West Bengal stood at 98.33 per cent, it stated.
The 14 deaths were reported from Kolkata (four), and three each in North 24 Parganas and Nadia districts.
Hooghly accounted for two deaths, while South Parganas and Darjeeling registered one each.
A total of 1,86,77,183 samples have been tested in West Bengal so far, the bulletin said.
As many as 27,148 samples were tested for coronavirus on Sunday, compared to 19,018 on Saturday, it said.
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