6 more people die due to COVID-19 in West Bengal; 183 fresh cases take tally to 4,192

Six more people died due to COVID-19 in West Bengal on Wednesday, taking coronavirus toll to 217 as 183 fresh cases surfaced in state, according to a medical bulletin. With se new cases, total number of COVID-19 infections in state has reached 4,192, it said. At present, re are 2,325 active cases in West Bengal.

Five fatalities were reported from Kolkata, while one was reported from rth 24 Parganas district, bulletin said. Of 183 new cases, 57 were reported from Kolkata, 36 from rth 24 Parganas district, 23 from Howrah, 19 from South 24 Parganas and 12 from Bankura, among ors.

12 COVID-19 patients from Bankura are migrant workers who have recently returned to state from Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu, district health officials said, adding that y are undergoing treatment at a designated hospital in Durgapur. In last 24 hours, 9,236 samples have been tested for COVID-19, it said, adding that state has so far tested a total of 1,66,513 samples.

A senior officer at Beliaghata police station tested positive for COVID-19, following which a few or policemen posted re were put under home quarantine, health department sources said. A bank official from city has also tested positive for disease, y added. Earlier, state government had attributed death of 72 coronavirus patients to comorbidities and said COVID-19 in those cases was "incidental".