Bengal on Saturday logged 980 new Covid-19 cases, 880 recoveries and 13 deaths.

Active cases, or Covid patients under treatment in Bengal, rose by 87 to 8,310. Bengal has 5.4 per cent of India’s active cases, and is fifth among states with the most such cases.

Since September 26, when Bengal snapped out of a 97-day streak of fall in active cases, there has been a net rise of 636 in the state’s total of active cases. Calcutta logged 272 new Covid-19 cases and four deaths on Saturday.

A minister said the new infections reported on Saturday were indicative of people that got infected between October 21 and 25.

Calcutta reported 272 new infections and four deaths. North 24-Parganas reported 148 new infections and five deaths.

These were only two of the state’s 23 districts with a three-digit figure of new cases found. Five districts reported a single-digit figure.

Seventeen Bengal districts reported zero deaths.

Calcutta, North and South 24-Parganas, Howrah, Hooghly and Nadia accounted for 705 – 71.94 per cent – of the new infections detected on Friday.

The daily positive confirmation rate, which was nearly 33 per cent at the peak of the second wave, was 2.08 per cent on Saturday.

The state’s mortality rate is 1.2, while that of the nation is 1.34 per cent.

Bengal now has nearly 15.92 lakh Covid-19 cases, since the first was logged in March last year. The total includes over 15.64 lakh recoveries and 19,126 deaths.