India News | Bengal Logs 70 New COVID-19 Cases
Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. West Bengal recorded 70 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, taking the tally to 20,17,459, a health department bulletin said.
Kolkata, Apr 2 (PTI) West Bengal recorded 70 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, taking the tally to 20,17,459, a health department bulletin said.
As no coronavirus fatality was registered for the last 11 days, the death toll remained at 21,197.
Forty-one fresh infections had been reported in the state on Friday.
As many as 19,95,661 patients have so far recovered from the disease in the state.
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The number of active cases went up to 601 from 600 on Friday.
In the last 24 hours, 12,401 samples were tested for COVID-19 taking the total number of such clinical examinations to 24,782,766 since the outbreak of the pandemic, the bulletin said.
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