Ten people afflicted with Covid-19 died in West Bengal on Monday, taking the toll in the state to 485, the health department said.
Of the 10, eight died due to comorbidities, where Covid-19 was “incidental”, it said.
A total of 407 more people tested positive for the disease in the past 24 hours, raising the total number of such cases to 11,494, the department said in its bulletin.
The maximum number of new infections was reported from Kolkata with 104 cases, while 56 each were registered in North 24 Parganas and Malda districts, it said.
Thirty-six people tested positive for Covid-19 in Howrah, 29 in Alipurduar, 22 in Darjeeling, 17 in Jalpaiguri, 14 in Dakshin Dinajpur and 13 in South 24 Parganas districts, the bulletin said.
The number of active cases in the state currently stands at 5,515.
Altogether 9,509 samples were examined for the disease since Sunday evening. A total of 3,43,242 coronavirus tests have been conducted so far.
A total of 434 patients have been discharged from different hospitals in the state in the past 24 hours after being cured, the bulletin added.
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