Bengal on Tuesday recorded 72 consecutive days of a fall in its total number of Covid-19 active cases, with 546 new infections, 640 recoveries and 13 deaths.

With this, Bengal has 8,815 active cases now, having fallen by 107 on Tuesday.

Bengal now has 2.36 per cent of the national total of active cases, and occupies the seventh spot among states with the most active cases.

Calcutta logged 92 new infections and three deaths.

Tuesday was the third consecutive day again, of not one of the 23 Bengal districts reporting a three-digit figure of new infections. Eight districts reported a single-digit figure.

The state’s recovery rate is 98.24 per cent now, its highest ever this pandemic, still fairly ahead of the national rate of 97.48.

The daily positive confirmation rate, which was nearly 33 per cent at the peak of the second wave, was 1.65 per cent on Tuesday.

Seventeen Bengal districts reported zero deaths on Tuesday. Calcutta reported three.

The state’s mortality rate is 1.19 per cent, while that of the nation is 1.34.

The state currently has over 15.48 lakh Covid-19 cases, since the first was reported in March last year. The total includes more than 15.21 lakh recoveries and 18,447 deaths.