Covid-19
West Bengal reports biggest spike in single-day Covid-19 deaths, 2,404 fresh infections
Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal on Saturday reported the biggest spike in Covid-19 fatalities as 42 Novel Coronavirus patients succumbed to the disease in the last 24 hours.
The West Bengal health department said that Covid-19 toll in the state has mounted to 1,332 with 669 of them being reported from the state capital Kolkata.
The state's Covid tally zoomed past 56,000 as 2,404 new Covid cases were reported on Saturday.
19,391 of the total 56,377 are now active Covid patients in the eastern state, which was under the biweekly lockdown on Saturday.
In a brighter picture, a record number of 2,125 Covid-19 patients were discharged from different health facilities across the state in the last 24 hours, taking the number of cured patients to 35,654.
The recovery rate has further surged to 63.24%.
Officials reported that as on Saturday (Jul 25) evening, West Bengal had 1,027 broad-based containment zones, out of which 31 were in Kolkata.
West Bengal has tested 7,89,140 samples till date with 15,628 of them conducted in 56 testing facilities across the state in the last 24 hours.
Currently, 3,412 people are kept in government quarantine centres while 33,184 people are under home surveillance in the state.
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