Bengal on Monday recorded 85 straight days of a fall in its total number of active cases, with 506 new infections, 587 recoveries and 10 deaths.
Bengal’s total of active cases fell by 91 on Monday to touch 8,096.
Bengal now has 2.27 per cent of the national total of active cases, and is seventh on among the states with the highest number of such cases.
Calcutta logged 93 new infections on Monday, fewer than 125 on Sunday and 119 on Saturday. North 24-Parganas, with 104 cases, was the only one among the state’s 23 districts on Monday with a three-digit figure of new Covid infections detected in a day. Nine districts reported a single-digit figure.
Calcutta reported three deaths and North 24-Parganas two. Eighteen Bengal districts reported zero deaths.
The state’s recovery rate is 98.29 per cent, its highest ever this pandemic and ahead of the national rate of 97.56 per cent. Bengal’s daily positive confirmation rate, which was nearly 33 per cent at the peak of the second wave, was 1.87 per cent on Monday. The state’s mortality rate is 1.19 per cent, while that of the nation is 1.33 per cent.
The state now has over 15.57 lakh Covid-19 cases, since the first was reported in March 2020, and includes more than 15.3 lakh recoveries and 18,587 deaths.