West Bengal reports 409 new COVID-19 cases, 6 more deaths

Kolkata: West Bengal reported 409 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday and six more deaths, as per a bulletin issued by the Health Department.

The toll rose to 10,080 with the new fatalities, it said.

The state has so far reported 5,66,482 cases of COVID-19.

During the day, 509 more people recovered from the disease.

The positivity rate is at 7.33 per cent with 27,104 samples tested for COVID-19 in the state in the last 24 hours.

There are 6,675 active cases in the state at present.

Two persons died in Kolkata, while one death each was reported from North 24 Parganas, Hooghly, Jalpaiguri and Nadia.

North 24 Parganas reported the highest of 109 new cases, followed by Kolkata at 89.