KOLKATA : West Bengal on Sunday registered the highest single-day spike in COVID-19 cases, with 371 more testing positive for the disease, the health department said.
The total number of coronavirus cases in the state currently stood at 5,501 in the state, while active cases rose to 3,027, the department said.
Eight people have succumbed to the disease in the last 24 hours -- seven from Kolkata and one from neighbouring North 24 Parganas -- raising the death toll to 245.
During the same period, 187 people were discharged from different hospitals, taking the number of recoveries in the state to 2,157.