Bengal logs 524 new infections and 12 deaths

 The total of active cases fell by 96 to 7,810

The state’s mortality rate is 1.19 per cent, while that of the nation is 1.33 per cent.:Shutterstock

Meghdeep Bhattacharyya   |   TT  |  Calcutta   |  21.09.21: Bengal on Monday recorded 92 straight days of a fall in its total of active Covid-19 cases, with 524 new infections, 608 recoveries and 12 deaths.

The total of active Covid-19 cases fell by 96 to 7,810.

Calcutta logged 105 new infections and North 24-Parganas 103, the only two of the state’s 23 districts with a three-digit figure of new infections detected in a day. Nine districts reported a single-digit figure.

Sixteen Bengal districts reported zero deaths on Monday. Calcutta reported two and North 24-Parganas three.

The state’s recovery rate is 98.31 per cent, its highest  this pandemic, ahead of the national rate of 97.7 per cent.

The state’s mortality rate is 1.19 per cent, while that of the nation is 1.33 per cent.

Bengal’s daily positive confirmation rate, which had risen up to nearly 33 per cent at the peak of the second wave, was 1.99 per cent on Monday.

Bengal now has 15.62 lakh Covid-19 cases, since the first was logged in March last year. The total includes over 15.35 lakh recoveries and 18,664 deaths.