Bengal on Tuesday logged another highest single-day jump in Covid-19 infections, with 3,175 cases, and in tests with 35,107.

Prior to this, the highest number of Covid infections reported in the 24-hour window was 3,080 on Monday, and the most number of tests was 34,214 on Saturday.

The state reported 2,987 recoveries and 55 deaths in the 24-hour period ending at Tuesday 9am.

Bengal has now gone past 1.22 lakh cases, of which nearly 93,000 are recoveries and 2,528 are deaths.

Of the 3,175 new cases, Calcutta reported 600 and North 24-Parganas 664. But as Calcutta reported 636 recoveries and North 24-Parganas 607, their total active cases fell again.

Calcutta also accounted for 17 deaths on Tuesday and 1,110 deaths in all since the onset of the pandemic. North 24-Parganas reported a total of 580 deaths so far, with 11 of them on Tuesday.

“Over nine days now, since August 9, the total active cases in these two high-incidence districts have been falling. On August 9, Calcutta had 7,041 active cases and North 24-Parganas had 5,774. Today, Calcutta has 6,371 and North 24-Parganas 5,607,” said a minister. “It can be said with a degree of certainty that this indicates the efficacy of a slew of measures to contain the outbreak in the two districts.”

He added that the share of total active cases in the two districts fell in nine days from 48.58 per cent to 43.5 per cent. The recovery rate of these two districts put together went up from 70.58 per cent to 76.97 per cent in the same span.

Bengal’s recovery rate now is 75.51. The national rate is 73.52 now.

Bengal also upped its daily testing in one month from 13,471 to 35,107. The tests per million count almost doubled from 7,814 to 15,358. The total test count has risen from 6.03 lakh to 13.82 lakh in a month.

“Daily test count of 40,000 will be achieved in a matter of days. We will look to achieve 50,000 within August,” said the minister.

Owing to the sharp spike in new cases, the positive confirmation rate is now 8.88 per cent, but was 6.04 a month ago.

Of the 2,528 deaths, the state government reported 2,240 or 88.6 per cent as those with comorbidity “present”. In a month, 1,416 persons with Covid-19 have died, of which 1,316 had comorbidities, the government said. Bengal’s mortality rate is now 2.05 per cent, still behind the national rate of 1.92 per cent. Calcutta’s mortality rate is 3.31.

The state reported 36.82 per cent occupancy in the 11,775 beds earmarked for Covid-19 in the 84 dedicated hospitals for the pandemic, besides 16.97 per cent in 11,507 beds of the 200 safe homes.

Telemedicine consultation for the pandemic was provided to over 91,000, including 4,737 in the past 24 hours.