Bengal on Sunday reported the seventh drop in eight days in active Covid-19 cases that brought the number down to 5,093 now, a drop of 600 active cases since June 13.
The eight-day period also saw 3,755 recoveries or over 45 per cent of the total number of recoveries in the state since the onset of the pandemic. The total number of recoveries has crossed 8,000. In these eight days, recovery rate also rose by over 17 per cent to 59.49. A month ago, the recovery rate was 36.64 per cent.
However, Bengal reported 15 more Covid-19 casualties, which has taken the total pandemic toll to 555. Of them, the state government reported 405 or 73 per cent as deaths with comorbidity “present”.
Calcutta reported the most deaths at 329. While Bengal’s overall mortality rate stood at 3.97 per cent, that of the city was 7.07.
