Kolkata, Mar 8 (PTI) West Bengal on Tuesday reported 68 new COVID-19 cases and only one death, a state Health department bulletin said.
The COVID-19 death toll went up to 21,281 while the tally rose to 20,15,980.
At least 105 people recovered from the disease during the day, pushing the total COVID-19 recoveries to 19,93,250, it said.
On Monday the state had reported 50 new COVID-19 cases.
West Bengal currently has 1,549 active COVID-19 cases, the bulletin said.
The COVID-19 recovery rate now is 98.87 per cent.
Since Monday, 21,456 samples have been tested in Bengal taking the total number of such tests to be at 24,387,982, it added. PTI SCH RG RG
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