Kolkata, Mar 8 (PTI) West Bengal on Tuesday reported 68 new COVID-19 cases and only one death, a state Health department bulletin said.

The COVID-19 death toll went up to 21,281 while the tally rose to 20,15,980.

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At least 105 people recovered from the disease during the day, pushing the total COVID-19 recoveries to 19,93,250, it said.

On Monday the state had reported 50 new COVID-19 cases.

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West Bengal currently has 1,549 active COVID-19 cases, the bulletin said.

The COVID-19 recovery rate now is 98.87 per cent.

Since Monday, 21,456 samples have been tested in Bengal taking the total number of such tests to be at 24,387,982, it added.

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