Bengal on Tuesday recorded 93 straight days of a fall in its overall number of active Covid-19 cases, with 537 new infections, 592 recoveries and 14 deaths.

Covid-19 active cases in the state fell by 69 to 7,741.

Calcutta logged 108 new infections, the only one among the state’s 23 districts with a three-digit figure of new infections detected in a day. Nine districts reported a single-digit figure. Calcutta reported three deaths while 15 Bengal districts logged zero deaths.

The state’s recovery rate is 98.31 per cent, its highest this pandemic and ahead of the national rate of 97.72 per cent. Its mortality rate is 1.2 per cent and that of the nation is 1.33 per cent. Its daily Covid-19 positive confirmation rate, nearly 33 per cent at the peak of the second wave earlier this year, was 1.62 per cent on Tuesday.

Bengal now has nearly 15.63 lakh Covid-19 cases, since the first was logged in March last year. The total includes over 15.36 lakh recoveries and 18,678 deaths.