<p>West Bengal on Monday recorded the year's highest single-day spike of 1,957 Covid-19 cases, while 6,700 people were detected with the infection in the five days of April, the state health department said.</p>.<p>Altogether 19 coronavirus fatalities were recorded this month including four on Monday.</p>.<p>The death toll thus mounted to 10,348 and the state's caseload went up to 5,95,576, the department said in a bulletin.</p>.<p>In the last 24 hours, 664 people recovered from the disease in the state, taking the total number of cured people to 5,73,782 people.</p>.<p>West Bengal now has 11,446 active cases, the bulletin added.</p>.<p>Kolkata city and the districts of North 24 Parganas, Howrah and Paschim Bardhaman registered one death each on Monday.</p>.<p><strong>Read | <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/india-administers-over-8-crore-covid-19-vaccine-doses-970823.html" target="_blank">India administers over 8 crore Covid-19 vaccine doses</a></strong></p>.<p>Out of the four deaths, two were due to comorbidities where Covid-19 was incidental.</p>.<p>The 1,957 new positive cases included 606 from Kolkata, 503 from North 24 Parganas and 122 from South 24 Parganas district, the bulletin said.</p>.<p>Since Sunday, 26,174 samples have been tested in West Bengal taking the total number of such tests to 93,04,407.</p>.<p>Meanwhile, 1,47,435 people were vaccinated in the state on Monday, a health department official said adding only a minor AEFI case was reported.</p>.<p>"Altogether 1,36,132 people took the first dose and 11,303 got the second dose," he added.</p>
<p>West Bengal on Monday recorded the year's highest single-day spike of 1,957 Covid-19 cases, while 6,700 people were detected with the infection in the five days of April, the state health department said.</p>.<p>Altogether 19 coronavirus fatalities were recorded this month including four on Monday.</p>.<p>The death toll thus mounted to 10,348 and the state's caseload went up to 5,95,576, the department said in a bulletin.</p>.<p>In the last 24 hours, 664 people recovered from the disease in the state, taking the total number of cured people to 5,73,782 people.</p>.<p>West Bengal now has 11,446 active cases, the bulletin added.</p>.<p>Kolkata city and the districts of North 24 Parganas, Howrah and Paschim Bardhaman registered one death each on Monday.</p>.<p><strong>Read | <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/india-administers-over-8-crore-covid-19-vaccine-doses-970823.html" target="_blank">India administers over 8 crore Covid-19 vaccine doses</a></strong></p>.<p>Out of the four deaths, two were due to comorbidities where Covid-19 was incidental.</p>.<p>The 1,957 new positive cases included 606 from Kolkata, 503 from North 24 Parganas and 122 from South 24 Parganas district, the bulletin said.</p>.<p>Since Sunday, 26,174 samples have been tested in West Bengal taking the total number of such tests to 93,04,407.</p>.<p>Meanwhile, 1,47,435 people were vaccinated in the state on Monday, a health department official said adding only a minor AEFI case was reported.</p>.<p>"Altogether 1,36,132 people took the first dose and 11,303 got the second dose," he added.</p>