Kolkata, Oct 8 (PTI) West Bengal logged 243 fresh COVID-19 positive cases on Saturday, pushing the tally to 21,15,688, a health department bulletin said.

One more fatality was reported in the last 24 hours, taking the COVID-19 death toll to 21,514.

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The daily positivity rate was 4.11 per cent as 5,916 samples were tested.

The state currently has 1,963 active COVID-19 cases while 20,92,211 people have recovered from the disease including 305 during the day.

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The COVID-19 recovery rate now is 98.89 per cent.

West Bengal on Friday had logged 150 new COVID-19 cases and one death.

A total of 2,65,50,691 samples have been tested for COVID-19 so far, it added.

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