West Bengal's COVID-19 tally rose to 21,13,975 on Wednesday as 309 more people tested positive for the infection, a health department bulletin said. Two new fatalities during the day pushed the COVID-19 death death toll to 21,503, the bulletin said.
The positivity rate for the day was 4.21 per cent as 7,334 samples were tested. Bengal currently has 3,170 active COVID-19 cases while 20,89,302 people have recovered from the disease including 236 during the day, it said.
The COVID-19 recovery rate now is 98.83 per cent.
On Tuesday the state had reported 279 new COVID-19 cases and two deaths. A total of 2,64,97,441 samples have been tested for COVID-19 so far, the bulletin added.
-With PTI Input
