2,936 new cases of COVID-19 in West Bengal

The COVID-19 toll in West Bengal rose to 2,203 on Wednesday after 54 people succumbed to the disease, the health department said. The state's coronavirus count has gone up to 1,04,326 after 2,936 new cases of infection were reported, a bulletin released by the department



said. The number of active patients is 26,003 in the state, it said. 

Since Tuesday, 2,725 COVID-19 patients have been discharged from different hospitals of West Bengal. In the last 24 hours, 27,712 samples have been tested, the bulletin said.