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West Bengal's COVID-19 death toll surpasses 3000-mark, tally reaches 1,50,772

| @indiablooms | Aug 28, 2020, at 02:26 am

Kolkata/IBNS: With 2,997 fresh infections and 53 coronavirus related fatalities reported in the last 24 hours, the total number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 in West Bengal has mounted to 1,50,772, including 26,709 active ones, 3,017 deaths and 1,21,046 active cases, reports said on Thursday.

According to a bulletin issued by Bengal Health and Family Welfare (WBHFW) department, in the past 24 hours, 3,189 Covid-19 patients were discharged from different health facilities across the state, taking the recovery rate to 80.28 per cent from 79.75 per cent.

Officials said that West Bengal had tested 17,16,607 samples till date with a record number of 42,474 tests conducted in 70 testing facilities in the state in the last 24 hours.

Presently, 2,537 persons are kept in government quarantine centres and 50,259 people are under home surveillance in the state while 1,697 persons are in 200 government-run safe homes.

 


 

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