West Bengal: Active cases drop to 61K, 8,811 new infections found

The cumulative Covid cases have reached 14,03,535. But with 13,25,834 people having recovered, the recovery rate has risen to 94.46 per cent.

Out of 8,118 new cases in the last 24 hours, North 24 Parganas reported the most at 1,842, followed by Kolkata 976. Howrah reported 656 new cases, South 24 Parganas 590 and Hooghly district 571. Nadia, Purba Medinipur and Paschim Medinipur also recorded cases between 400 and 500 each.

In north Bengal, maximum cases were reported in Darjeeling and Jalpaiguri — 541 and 510, respectively – in the last 24 hours.

Out of the 108 deaths during the day, 41 were caused due to comorbidities where Covid-19 was incidental, the government bulletin said.

As of Wednesday, 74,568 samples were tested for Covid-19, taking the total number of such examinations to 1,26,45,747, the bulletin added.

one more dies of black fungus

One more death from mucormycosis or black fungus was reported in the state, taking the total fatalities from the fungal infection to five in the state. According to a government bulletin, one more case of the fungal infection was reported from a Kolkata hospital. With this, the total number of confirmed cases reached 30.