<span style="color: #222222;">In poll bound West Bengal, nearly 7 thousand new covid cases have been reported the day before the fifth phase of assembly elections. 16 seats of North 24 Parganas will go for polls tomorrow along with 29 seats of five more districts. It reported 1,592 new cases while Kolkata recorded 1,884 cases. Total cases of Covid rose to 6 lakh 36 thousand 885 and 26 people have lost their lives due to Covid in the past 24 hours.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The state government has decided to increase the number of beds for Covid patients by 20percent in government and 25percent in private hospitals.</span><br />''  <br />