West Bengal: 11 more deaths take COVID toll to 580; 370 fresh infections reported

Eleven more people succumbed to COVID-19 in West Bengal on Tuesday, taking the toll due to the disease to 580, while 370 fresh cases pushed the state's tally to 14,728, a health department bulletin said. Nine of the 11 deaths were due to comorbidities where COVID-19 was incidental, it added.

Of the 11 deaths, four were from Howrah district, three each from Kolkata and North 24 Parganas districts, and one from Purba Medinipur. With the 370 fresh infections, the number of active COVID-19 cases in the state stands at 4,930.

The new COVID-19 cases were reported from Kolkata (81), North 24 Parganas (55), Howrah (49), Dakshin Dinajpur (36), South 24 Parganas (28) and Malda (26), the bulletin said.

Nineteen cases were reported in Darjeeling; 17 in Bankura; 16 in Jalpaiguri; 13 in Uttar Dinajpur; eight in Birbhum; five in Hooghly; four each in Nadia, Murshidabad and Purba Medinipur; three in Paschim Medinipur; and one each in Alipurduar and Purba Burdwan, it said.

The discharge rate in West Bengal improved to 62.58 per cent after 531 patients were discharged from different hospitals on Tuesday. Of the 531 recovered patients, 205 were from Kolkata and 100 from neighbouring North 24 Parganas district.

Till Tuesday, a total of 9,218 people have recovered from the disease in the state. Since Monday, 9,423 samples have been tested in West Bengal, taking the total number of samples tested so far to 4,20,277, the bulletin said.