States »EasPosted at: Apr 26 2021 9:48PM

Fresh surge in corona cases with 68 deaths, Kolkata topped the list of casualty

Kolkata, Apr 26 (UNI) The election frenzy in West Bengal was against witnessing the surge
of fresh corona cases and upward graph in the casualty in this poll bound state with 68
deaths and some 15992 new cases across the state in the past 24 hours.
Of the 68 deaths reported on Monday, Kolkata topped the list with 26 casualties, followed
by North 24 Parganas 11,
With the rise of pandemic patients, particularly in urban and city areas, the scarcity of
medical facility of was also felt.
"Getting admission into a government hospital or any private hospital is almost impossible
unless some connection is there," said a family member of a patient.
The death rate due to pandemic came to near one digit to 1 and hovering between 1-5,
which now was going upper graph for past few days, according to a state government health
bulletin.
In the past 24 hours the graph went upto 15992 new covid cases and death was reported
to 68 and total death so far 11,009 since March 2020
Kolkata has registered a record one-day spike of 3868 coronavirus cases, while North 24
Parganas district reported 3,425 cases.
However, some 9775 patients recovered from the disease during the last 24 hours, taking
the total number of discharged people to 6,53,984.
Total discharged rate as on Monday is 86.06 percent
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