Kolkata, May 26 (PTI) West Bengal recorded 42 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, as per the state Health Department.

So far, the state has registered 20,19,231 COVID-19 cases. The toll remained at 21,203 as there was no new death, it said.

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In the last 24 hours, 37 people recovered from the disease, taking the total recoveries to 19,97,667, it added.

There are 361 active cases in the state at present.

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The new cases were detected after testing 8,342 samples.

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