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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\nImage used for representational purpose<\/span><\/p>\n KOLKATA: Bengal recorded the highest number of Covid deaths on a single day on Sunday with the toll clocking 36 in the past 24 hours. With this, the total toll has climbed up to 1,112. The highest number of deaths recorded on a day so far had been 27. The number of fresh cases was also the highest so far at 2,278, taking the total number of Covid cases in the state to 42,487.
Kolkata led the chart with the highest number of deaths and new cases. Out of the 36 deaths, 15 were from the city followed by North 24 Parganas with 9 deaths. While Hooghly had four deaths, Howrah and South 24 Parganas had three deaths each. Two more deaths were reported from East and West Midnapore.
\u201cThere are a large number of unscreened people who are infected. Unless we have an appropriate strategy to address this fast, we will go on setting new records,\u201d said
virologist Amitabha Nandy of Centre for Tropical Medicine and Parasitology.
Of 2,278 new cases reported on Sunday, 662 were from Kolkata alone. The hospital occupancy rate, that had remained around 27% even a week ago, has now shot up to 36 % across the state. While private hospitals are running out of beds, government facilities, too, are filling up fast. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n