Kolkata, Jan 10 (PTI) Bucking the trend, West Bengal on Monday reported 19,286 fresh COVID-19 cases, 5,001 fewer than the previous day, raising the tally to 17,74,332, the health department said.

It had registered an all-time high single-day spike of 24,287 infections on Sunday.

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The death toll mounted to 19,917 with 16 more fatalities, the bulletin said.

West Bengal now has 89,194 active cases, while 8,187 patients recovered since Sunday.

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