West Bengal: Healthy trend of more Covid recoveries continues, 2,976 cases reported

Keeping with the trend of recoveries in excess of 3,000 for the past few days, as many as 3,297 patients were discharged from hospitals after their recovery, taking the cumulative figure to 1,40,913. This means that the state has only 24,445 active cases.

The state tested 44,120 sample in the last 24 hours, taking the total to 19,75,493.

Kolkata and its neighbouring four districts continue to share the heaviest caseload burden. Of the 2,976 fresh cases, North 24 Parganas recorded the highest at 728 followed by Kolkata’s 393, Hooghly’s 247, Howrah’s 150 and South 24 Parganas’s 137. In other districts of south Bengal, 144 patients tested positive in Purba Midnapore, 129 in Paschim Midnapore, 103 in Bankura and 100 in Paschim Burdwan. In north Bengal, Coochbehar recorded 126 new cases, Jalpaiguri 124 and Alipurduar 103.

A total of 2,454 people are in government quarantine, 56,307 in home quarantine and 1,747 in safe homes.