Covid: Bengal logged 5,868 active cases- recovery rate 97.19 per cent , active cases 5,868

The state’s Covid-19 recovery rate rose for 96 days on the trot to touch 97.19 per cent

Bengal now has nearly 5.69 lakh Covid-19 cases, including nearly 5.53 lakh recoveries and 10,139 deaths.

Meghdeep Bhattacharyya   |   TT   |   Calcutta   |   28.01.21 : Bengal on Wednesday logged 386 Covid-19 recoveries, 234 new infections and eight deaths, including one from Calcutta.

Bengal’s total active cases dropped for 93 days straight, from 37,190 on Vijaya Dashami, October 26, to 5,868 now.

“We have undone around seven months of damage in three months,” said a minister.

The state’s Covid-19 recovery rate rose for 96 days on the trot to touch 97.19 per cent.

“We are looking at taking the total down to less than 5,000 in another month and the recovery rate past 98 per cent in that timeframe,” the minister added. “Not even in our most optimistic assessments could we have predicted this position at this stage of the pandemic.”

Bengal now has nearly 5.69 lakh Covid-19 cases, including nearly 5.53 lakh recoveries and 10,139 deaths. Bengal’s mortality rate is 1.78 per cent now, lagging behind the national rate of 1.43. The state has attributed 8,513 of the deaths or 84 per cent of the toll to comorbidities.

However, the state’s positive confirmation rate is 7.21 per cent now, having improved steadily from the 8.27, 68 days ago. “Steady fall in positive confirmation rate means only one thing that the outbreak is shrinking for Bengal,” the minister said, calling the state’s pandemic management “spot on”.