West Bengal: Number of COVID tests crosses 3 lakh-mark, cases surge to 9768
Kolkata/IBNS: With 9522 Covid-19 tests conducted in the last 24 hours, the number of samples tested in West Bengal on Thursday reached 3,06,941 while the state's tally mounted to 9768, including 5338 active cases, 442 deaths and 3988 discharges, reports said.
According to a bulletin issued by the state health and family welfare department, 440 new cases, 10 deaths and 209 discharges were reported in the past 24 hours.
The state data claimed that the recovery rate in Bengal had climbed to 40.82 per cent.
Presently, 18671 persons are kept in government quarantine centres and 1,56,392 people are under home surveillance in the state, reports said.
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