Kolkata, Aug 29 (PTI) West Bengal on Monday reported 100 fresh COVID-19 cases, 122 less than the previous day, pushing the tally to 21,06,624, a health department bulletin said.

One more COVID-19 fatality pushed the death toll to 21,461, it said.

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The positivity rate for the day was 1.84 per cent as 100 infections were detected out of 5,432 samples tested.

The state now has 2,716 active COVID-19 cases while 20,82,447 people have recovered from the disease including 311 during the day, it said.

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The Covid recovery rate now is 98.85 per cent.

Bengal had reported 222 new COVID-19 cases and three deaths on Sunday.

A total of 2,62,70,281 samples have been tested for COVID-19 so far, it added.

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