West Bengal has recorded nine more COVID-19 fatalities, raising the death toll in the state to 135, according to the health department's bulletin issued on Wednesday.
Five deaths were reported from the city, two from neighbouring Howrah and one each from North 24 Parganas and South 24 Parganas districts, it said.
The state attributed 72 other deaths to comorbidities and cases where COVID-19 was incidental.
There were 117 new cases of the respiratory infection reported since Tuesday, taking the total number of confirmed cases in the state to 2,290, the bulletin said.
The state has registered at least 1,381 active COVID-19 cases, it added.
Since Tuesday, at least 90 people were discharged from different hospitals treating COVID-19 patients after they tested negative for the contagion. Till Wednesday, a total of 702 people have been discharged, the bulletin said.
Meanwhile, three health workers at the Beliaghata ID Hospital, one official of a city-based public sector bank and two Kolkata Police officers tested positive for COVID-19, sources said.
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