Kolkata, Aug 12 (PTI) West Bengal logged 472 fresh COVID-19 cases on Friday, pushing the tally to 21,01,547, the health department said in a bulletin.

Three more fatalities took the death toll in the state to 21,417, it said.

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Bengal had reported 598 new infections and four deaths on Thursday.

It now has 6,132 active cases, while a total of 20,73,998 people have recovered from the disease so far, the bulletin said. The state tested 9,842 samples for COVID-19 since Thursday at a positivity rate of 4.80 per cent.

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During the day, 76,720 people were vaccinated, it added.

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