Bengal on Friday achieved the Covid-19 goal of below-5,000 total active cases.

The state now has 4,992 active cases, back almost to where it was on June 9 last year.

On Friday, Bengal logged 297 Covid-19 recoveries, 194 new infections and two deaths, including one from Calcutta, aiding the fall in total active cases for 102 days straight since Vijaya Dashami, October 26 last year. The state had 37,190 active cases then.

Bengal’s Covid-19 recovery rate rose for 105 consecutive days to touch 97.34 per cent, leading the national rate by 0.17 per cent. Its positive confirmation rate is 7.05 per cent now, having fallen steadily for 77 days. On Friday, the state reported 23,167 tests, taking the total past 81.04 lakh, at 90,048 tests per million people.

The state’s total of Covid-19 cases is nearly 5.71 lakh, including around 5.56 lakh recoveries and 10,201 deaths.

Of the total toll, 8,568 deaths (84 per cent) were attributed to comorbidities.

Bengal’s mortality rate remained 1.78, while the national rate also was unchanged at 1.43 per cent.