Bengal on Saturday recorded 728 new Covid-19 infections, 757 recoveries and 12 deaths.

The state’s active cases fell by 41 to 7,967, less than 8,000 for the first time since April 2, 169 days ago.

On Saturday, with around 12.34 lakh jabs administered from 4,859 centres (4,532 run by the state government), Bengal went past 5 crore doses of vaccine administered, with close to 5.06 crore doses in the state with a 10-crore population. Close to 2.62 crore doses have been given to men and 2.44 crore doses to women.

The 5.06 crore includes nearly 1.47 crore second doses -- which means around 14.7 per cent people of the state are now fully vaccinated. The national total of the fully vaccinated is 14.9 per cent of the population.

In Bengal, the 18-44 age group has received around 2.36 crore doses, the 45-60 age group has received 1.62 crore doses, while the 60-plus age group has received 1.08 crore doses.

Calcutta leads the districts with more than 66 lakh doses, followed by North 24-Parganas, with nearly 52 lakh doses. At the bottom of the pile is the smallest district of Kalimpong, with 2.63 lakh doses.

On Saturday, Calcutta logged 127 new infections and North 24-Parganas 121, the only two of the state’s 23 districts with a three-digit figure of new infections detected in a day. Seven districts reported a single-digit figure.

The state’s recovery rate is 98.3 per cent and fairly ahead of the national rate of 97.65 per cent.

The state’s daily positive confirmation rate, nearly 33 per cent at the peak of the second wave, was 1.91 per cent on Saturday.

Fifteen Bengal districts reported zero deaths on Saturday. Calcutta reported three deaths and North 24-Parganas two.

The state’s mortality rate is 1.19 per cent, while that of the nation is 1.33 per cent.