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West Bengal logs 3,067 new Covid cases, 5 deaths; positivity rate at 21.29%

West Bengal on Friday reported 3,067 COVID-19 cases, which pushed the tally to 20,65,360, the health department said in a bulletin on Friday.

Photo: Bloomberg

Photo: Bloomberg

Press Trust of India Kolkata

West Bengal on Friday reported 3,067 COVID-19 cases, which pushed the tally to 20,65,360, the health department said in a bulletin on Friday.

North 24 Parganas registered 693 infections followed by Kolkata at 653.

Five more deaths due to the disease raised the toll to 21,265, the bulletin said.

The number of active cases rose by 1,187 to 30,043

Altogether 20,14,052 people have recovered from the disease, 1,875 of them since Thursday.

The positivity rate stood at 19.54 per cent.

The state since Thursday tested 15,699 samples, the bulletin added.

(Only the headline and picture of this report may have been reworked by the Business Standard staff; the rest of the content is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)

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First Published: Jul 15 2022 | 11:31 PM IST

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