Bengal on Monday recorded 505 Covid-19 cases, 664 recoveries and 13 deaths as a fall in the total number of active patients continued for 78 successive days.

The total fell by 172 to 8,480.

Bengal has 2.19 per cent of the national total of active cases and is seventh on the list of states with the highest number of such cases.

Calcutta logged 107 new infections, the only district of the state’s 23 with a three-digit figure of fresh cases. Eight districts reported single-digit figures.

The state’s recovery rate is 98.26 per cent — the highest ever this pandemic — still fairly ahead of the national rate of 97.45. The daily positive confirmation rate, which was nearly 33 per cent at the peak of the second wave, was 1.92 per cent on Monday.

“The situation is firmly under control now. We have seen off even the residual impact of the second wave, and there are no signs yet of the onset of the feared third wave,” said a minister.

Fifteen Bengal districts reported zero deaths on Monday. Calcutta reported none. The state’s mortality rate is 1.19, while that of the nation is 1.33 per cent. The state currently has over 15.52 lakh Covid cases since the first was reported in March last year. The total includes more than 15.25 lakh recoveries and 18,515 deaths.