India News | Bengal Reports 309 New COVID-19 Cases, 2 Deaths

Kolkata, Sep 28 (PTI) West Bengal's COVID-19 tally rose to 21,13,975 on Wednesday as 309 more people tested positive for the infection, a health department bulletin said.

Two new fatalities during the day pushed the COVID-19 death death toll to 21,503, the bulletin said.

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The positivity rate for the day was 4.21 per cent as 7,334 samples were tested.

Bengal currently has 3,170 active COVID-19 cases while 20,89,302 people have recovered from the disease including 236 during the day, it said.

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The COVID-19 recovery rate now is 98.83 per cent.

On Tuesday the state had reported 279 new COVID-19 cases and two deaths.

A total of 2,64,97,441 samples have been tested for COVID-19 so far, the bulletin added.

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