Covid: active cases drop to 24,405 in Bengal -recovery rate -93.18%, mortality rate - 1.74

The statel’s total caseload is over 4.8 lakh now, including over 4.48 lakh recoveries and 8,376 deaths

Bengal’s recovery rate, rising for 38 consecutive days, is 93.18, close to the national rate of 93.76 per cent. Bengal’s mortality rate is now 1.74, compared to the national rate of 1.45 per cent. : Shutterstock

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TT    |   Calcutta   |    30.11.20  :  Bengal on Sunday reported a dip in total active cases for the 34th consecutive day since Durga Puja, with 24,405 active cases now compared to 37,190 on Vijaya Dashami, October 26.

On Sunday, Bengal reported 3,445 Covid-19 recoveries, 3,367 new infections and 54 deaths, 13 each from Calcutta and North 24-Parganas.

Trinamul’s senior Rajya Sabha member Sukhendu Sekhar Roy, 71, tested positive for Covid-19, the seventh sitting parliamentarian from Bengal to get infected. He tested positive at Calcutta Medical College and Hospital, said a party colleague.

Bengal’s total caseload is over 4.8 lakh now, including over 4.48 lakh recoveries and 8,376 deaths. Bengal’s recovery rate, rising for 38 consecutive days, is 93.18, close to the national rate of 93.76 per cent. Bengal’s mortality rate is now 1.74, compared to the national rate of 1.45 per cent.

Calcutta High Court had intervened to prevent a worsening of the pandemic over Durga Puja, Kali Puja, Diwali and Chhath. The numbers of infections from the festivals in October and November has shown that the court’s instructions were effective.

With 45,208 tests on Sunday, the state’s total test count went past 58.34 lakh, at 64,831 tests per million people. The positive confirmation rate is 8.24 per cent.

Of the total toll, 7,010 or 83.7 per cent, are comorbid deaths, the state government said.

Congress’s Malda South MP Abu Hasem Khan Choudhury, the BJP’s Midnapore MP and state unit chief Dilip Ghosh, Hooghly MP Locket Chatterjee, Balurghat MP Sukanta Majumdar, Jalpaiguri MP Jayanta Roy, and Trinamul’s Rajya Sabha member Shanta Chhetri had earlier tested positive.

So have over 40 of the sitting MLAs, including leader of the Opposition Abdul Mannan, ministers Gautam Deb, Rabindra Nath Ghosh, Jyotipriya Mullick, Sujit Bose and now-former-minister Suvendu Adhikari, among others. 

Covid-19 complications claimed the lives of CPM veteran Shyamal Chakraborty, Trinamul MLAs Samaresh Das, Tamonash Ghosh and Gurupada Mete.