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COVID-19: West Bengal sees biggest one-day jump of 3,245 cases, recoveries cross one lakh mark

| @indiablooms | Aug 22, 2020, at 03:32 am

Kolkata/IBNS: With the highest-ever single-day spike of 3,245 cases, the total number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in West Bengal has reached 1,32,364, including 27,804 active ones, 2,689 deaths and 1,01,871 discharges, reports said on Friday.

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 3,082 Covid-19 patients were discharged from different health facilities across the state, taking the recovery rate to 76.96 per cent from 76.51 per cent.

Officials said that West Bengal had tested 14,87,844 samples till date with 36,229 tests conducted in 69 testing facilities across the state in the past 24 hours.

Presently, 2,592 persons are kept in government quarantine centres and 46,037 people are under home surveillance in the state while 1,993 persons are in 200 government-run safe homes.

 

 

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