Kolkata, Aug 17 (PTI) West Bengal on Wednesday reported 393 new COVID-19 cases and four more deaths, the health department said.

There are 4,624 active cases at present in the state, it said.

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The new cases were detected after testing 9,723 samples, recording a positivity rate of 4.04 per cent.

The state has so far reported 21,03,325 COVID-19 cases and 21,427 deaths.

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In the last 24 hours, 607 people have recovered, taking the total to 20,77,274 recoveries.

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