3,112 new Covid cases in Bengal - The state also reports 41 deaths, the lowest daily toll in weeks, and 3,035 recoveries

Meghdeep Bhattacharyya   |   TT   |   Calcutta   |   11.09.20  :  Bengal reported 3,112 new Covid cases on Thursday.

The state also reported 41 deaths, the lowest daily toll in weeks, and 3,035 recoveries. Of the deaths, five were from Calcutta and 10 from North 24Parganas.

Bengal logged over 1.93 lakh Covid-19 cases — since the first was detected on March 17 — of which over 1.66 lakh are recoveries and 3,771 are deaths.

Of the total deaths, 3,242 (86 per cent) were reported as comorbid by the state government. The overall mortality rate stayed at 1.95, while the national rate is 1.67 per cent.

The recovery rate is at 85.95, far ahead of the national rate of 77.63 per cent.

With 44,347 tests on Thursday, the state went past 23 lakh in total testing, at over 23.3 lakh now. The tests per mil¬lion now is 25,892.

From early February, Bengal took over three-and-a-half months to conduct 1 lakh tests, on May 19. Over the next 114 days, it conducted over 22 lakh tests. With the surge in testing, and the relatively less new cases found over the past few weeks, the positive confirmation rate improved from a high of 8.9 to 8.29 per cent.

Bengal reported 32.75 per cent occupancy of 12,385 Covid19 beds in 92 hospitals.

Telemedicine services ha¬ve been provided to nearly 1.92 lakh, 4,216 of them in the past 24 hours.