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West Bengal reports highest one-day jump of 3,175 cases, death count crosses 2500 mark

| @indiablooms | Aug 19, 2020, at 04:22 am

Kolkata/IBNS: With highest-ever single-day spike of 3,175 cases, West Bengal's Covid-19 tally on Tuesday mounted to 1,22,753, including 27,535 active ones, 2,528 deaths and 92,690 discharges, reports said.

According to a bulletin issued by Bengal Health and Family Welfare (WBHFW) department, in the past 24 hours, 55 more coronavirus related fatalities were reported while 2,987 Covid-19 patients were discharged from different health facilities across the state, taking the recovery rate to 75.51 per cent from 75.02 per cent.

Officials said that West Bengal had tested 13,82,198 samples till date with 35,107 tests conducted in 68 testing facilities across the state in the past 24 hours.

Presently, 2,639 persons are kept in government quarantine centres and 43,927 people are under home surveillance in the state while 1,953 persons are in 200 government-run safe homes.


 

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