Bengal on Sunday logged 233 Covid-19 recoveries, 182 new infections and three deaths, including two from the city, with the state’s total active cases dropping for 118 days on the trot to 3,525.

There were 37,190 active cases in all on Dashami (October 26), making the dip an improvement by 90.52 per cent. Bengal now has 2.39 per cent of the nation’s active cases. Its recovery rate of 97.6 per cent while the national average is 97.2.

The state’s positive confirmation rate is 6.81 per cent, having fallen steadily for 94 days. On Sunday, the state reported 20,003 tests, taking the total past 84.29 lakh, at 93,660 tests per million people.

Of the total toll of 10,249, 8,604 deaths (83.9 per cent) were attributed to comorbidities. Bengal’s mortality rate remained 1.78, while the national rate was 1.42 per cent.