Drop-in Bengal cases

The active cases of Covid-19 patients have fallen considerably in Bengal. With 518 discharges on Sunday, the number of recovered patients crossed the 5000 marks. The recovery rate has reached 46.53%.

While there were 518 discharges on Sunday, the state reported 389 new Covid-19 cases in 24 hours till 9am. The total cases stood at 11,087.

Most of the cases — around 97 percent — were reported from districts experiencing a high volume of returns of migrant workers and others stranded elsewhere in the country during the initial stages of the lockdown. Calcutta alone reported 158 on Sunday.

The toll from Covid-19 in Bengal reached 475 with a dozen deaths from the pathogen being recorded on Sunday.

The positive confirmation rate — the percentage of people found infected among those tested — improved from 3.54 a month ago to 3.32 percent. A decreasing positive confirmation rate is indicative of lower levels of Covid-19 spread. 

Thus Bengal heaves a sigh of relief.

Update by Sirsha Gupta