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COVID-19: West Bengal reports highest-ever one-day jump of 3983 cases, death count breaches 6000-mark with 64 more fatalities

| @indiablooms | Oct 19, 2020, at 05:26 am

Kolkata/IBNS: With the highest-ever single-day spike of 3983 infections, the total number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in West Bengal on Sunday mounted to 3,21,036, including 33,927 active cases.

Meanwhile, the number of coronavirus related deaths in the state has reached 6056 with 64 deaths reported in the last 24 hours, authorities said.

According to a bulletin issued by West Bengal Health and Family Welfare (WBHFW), 3113 Covid-19 patients were discharged from several health facilities across the state in the past 24 hours, taking the total number of recoveries to 2,81,053, though the discharge rate has further dropped to 87.55 per cent from 87.66 per cent.

West Bengal has tested 39,91,270 samples till date with 43,520 tests conducted in 92 testing labs across the state in the last 24 hours, reports said.

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