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AAA West Bengal on Wednesday recorded 1,628 COVID-19 cases and 34 deaths in the past 24 hours.
While the number of infections has dropped significantly in the past few days the State continues to record high number of deaths. On Tuesday West Bengal had recorded 1,653 cases and 38 deaths.
Till a few days ago, the State recording over 3500 daily infections and 45 deaths. While the number of infections has reduced to half, the number of deaths has not dropped proportionately. The total number of the infections in the State increased to 5,41,624 and the active cases have declined to 15,689.
Debashis Dhar, group vice-president, ILS Hospitals, a healthcare group that administers three hospitals in Kolkata and Howrah of which two have been involved in COVID-19 management, said the situation has improved.