{"id":13641,"date":"2020-08-10T03:56:56","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T03:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=13641"},"modified":"2020-08-10T03:56:56","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T03:56:56","slug":"bengals-covid-19-toll-surges-past-2000-total-cases-over-95500-india-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=13641","title":{"rendered":"Bengal\u2019s Covid-19 toll surges past 2,000, total cases over 95,500 &#8211; india news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>West Bengal reported 54 more Covid-19 fatalities on Sunday, raising the death toll to 2,059, the state\u2019s health department said in a bulletin.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 2,939 fresh infections increased the caseload to 95,554, it said.<\/p>\n<p><b>Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/liveupdates.hindustantimes.com\/india\/coronavirus-india-world-latets-news-covid-19-death-toll-august-10-2020-21597023965607.html\" title=\"latest updates on coronavirus \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">latest updates on coronavirus <\/a>here <\/b><\/p>\n<p>The metropolis accounted for the highest number of 21 deaths, followed by neighbouring North 24 Parganas district (15). Of the 54 fatalities, 53 were due to comorbidities where Covid-19 was incidental, the department said.<\/p>\n<p>Kolkata also topped the list of fresh cases (615), while North 24 Parganas reported 588 infections.<\/p>\n<p>Since Saturday, 1,996 patients have recovered from the disease, taking the number of those cured to 67,120, the bulletin said.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/coronavirus\/\" title=\"Click here for complete coronavirus coverage \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here for complete coronavirus coverage <\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>West Bengal now has 26,375 active coronavirus cases.<\/p>\n<p>At least 26,242 samples were tested in the past 24 hours, it added. <\/p>\n<p><!--   section:india-news mainSection:india-news-->\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/india-news\/bengal-s-covid-19-toll-surges-past-2-000-total-cases-over-95-500\/story-pqqo0cFKwnHSWKg0wjDIkK.html\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Bengal reported 54 more Covid-19 fatalities on Sunday, raising the death toll to 2,059, the state\u2019s health department said in a bulletin. A total of 2,939 fresh infections increased the caseload to 95,554, it said. Follow latest updates on coronavirus here The metropolis accounted for the highest number of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kolkata"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/kolkata-covid-19-rapid-antigen-test-kit_12f6aca4-dab1-11ea-a443-929e5cf741bd.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}