Kolkata:
West Bengal on Tuesday registered its highest single-day spike of 652 COVID-19 circumstances, which pushed the overall tally within the state to 18,559, the well being division stated.
Fifteen coronavirus sufferers died prior to now 24 hours, taking the demise rely to 668, the division stated in its bulletin.
Of the 15 folks, 14 died resulting from comorbidities, the place COVID-19 was “incidental”, the bulletin stated.
Seven of those who died had been from the metropolis, two every from neighbouring North 24 Parganas and Howrah districts, and one every from Hooghly, Bankura, Birbhum and Darjeeling districts, it added.
Since Monday night, 411 folks have recovered from the illness, bettering the discharge charge to 65.35 per cent.
Throughout the identical interval, 9,619 samples had been examined for COVID-19 in West Bengal.
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