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West Bengal became the seventh state to record more than two lakh cases as 3,215 infections toll reaches to 2,02,708.
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West Bengal became the seventh state to record more than two lakh cases as 3,215 infections toll reaches to 2,02,708.
On a brighter side, the decline in average weekly infection growth rate continued.
It fell to 1.73 per cent, with 21,920 cases getting added during the week.
It marked a 12 per cent increase in cases as the week before (August 31 to September 6) 21,003 cases had been added.
The doubling rate of infection — calculated over seven-day average growth — slowed further, rising from 37 days the week before to 40 days.
Though the recovery rate continued to improve this week, rising to 86.4 per cent on Sunday, active cases registered an incremental increase.
The active caseload was 23,624 on Sunday, up from 23,218 at the end of last week.
In another worrying sign, the weekly positivity rate jumped from 6.7 per cent to 7.03 per cent even though fewer tests were conducted — 3,11,368 compared to 3,13,294 tests the week before.
This week 383 deaths occurred, compared to 386 the previous week.
It pushed up the toll to 3,945.
The case fatality rate, however, remained almost the same at 1.95 per cent.
Just over half of the cases, and 263 of the deaths were recorded in the South Bengal epicentre comprising Kolkata; its adjoining districts North 24 Parganas, South 24 Parganas, and Howrah; and Hooghly.