States »EasPosted at: May 9 2021 9:39PM

Fresh surge in corona cases with 124 deaths in Bengal, North 24 parganas topped list of casualty

Kolkata, May 9 (UNI) Even as the West Bengal government announced partial lockdown
in the districts and city to break the chain of deadly viruses, the second surge of Covid-19
began to take record number of toll 124 in the past 24 hours.
Of the 124 deaths reported on Sunday, North 24 pargans district topped the list with
34 casualties, followed by Kolkata 28, South 24 parganas 7, Darjeeling, Jalpaiguri 7,
Bankura 6, Dakshin Dinajpur 5, Uttar Dinajpur 5, Howrah 5, Hooghly 4, Birbhum 4 and
Paschim Medinipur 4,
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 19441 new covid cases and death was reported
to 124 and total death so far 12327 since March 2020
North 24 pargans has registered a one-day spike of 3997 coronavirus cases, while Kolkata
reported 3966 cases.
However, some 18,454 patients recovered from the disease during the last 24 hours, taking
the total number of discharged people to 8,54,805.
Total discharged rate as on Sunday is 86.07 percent.
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