States »EasPosted at: May 7 2021 10:29PM

Fresh surge in corona cases with 112 deaths in Bengal, North 24 parganas topped list of casualty

Kolkata, May 7 (UNI) Even as the West Bengal government announced partial lockdown
in the districts and city from Saturday last to break the chain of deadly viruses, the second
surge of Covid-19 began to take record number of toll 112 in the past 24 hours.
Of the 112 deaths reported on Friday, North 24 pargans district topped the list with
33 casualties, followed by Kolkata 28, Malda 6, Dakshin Dinajpur 6, South 24 parganas 5
and Birbhum 5.
With the rise of pandemic patients, particularly in urban and city areas, the scarcity of
medical facility of was also felt.
In the past 24 hours the graph went upto 19216 new covid cases and death was reported
to 112 and total death so far 12076 since March 2020
North 24 pargans has registered a one-day spike of 3957 coronavirus cases, while Kolkata
reported 3915 cases.
However, some 17,780 patients recovered from the disease during the last 24 hours, taking
the total number of discharged people to 8,18,108.
Total discharged rate as on Tuesday is 85.73 percent.
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