<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:#222222"><span style="background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; word-spacing: 0px;">In West Bengal, 787 more people have been testedpositive for Covid-19, taking the total number of cases to 5 lakhs 59 thousand8 hundred and 86. 20 lives were lost in the last 24 hours, taking the state'scoronavirus death toll to 9 thousand 9 hundred and 22. Kolkata and North 24Parganas districts reported the highest number of fresh fatalities at five eachwhereas Howrah recorded 4 deaths.</span><br style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-thickness: initial;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px" />''<br style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-thickness: initial;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px" />''<span style="background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; word-spacing: 0px;">978 people have been cured of the disease, takingthe recovery rate among the coronavirus patients to 96.79 percent. West Bengalnow has 8 thousand  and 34 active cases, while 5 lakh 41 thousand 9hundred 30 people have been discharged so far.</span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><o:p /></span></p><br />