BHOPAL: For the second consecutive day on Tuesday 10 new Covid-19 cases were reported in the state. With these new cases tally of cases reported so far in the state reached 7,92,175.
And it is fifth time in past 12 days that 10 or more than 10 new Covid-19 cases were reported in the state in a day.
Earlier it was on August 19, August 27, August 29 and August 30 that more than 10 new Covid-19 cases were reported.
There were a total of 79 active cases in the state as on August 31. New cases were reported in single digits from all the districts of the state. And no new case was reported from 46 districts of the state. And only one case was reported from four of the six districts where new cases were reported.
Maximum cases were reported from Bhopal district where 4 new cases were found, followed by 2 in Jabalpur and one case each was reported from Indore, Khargone, Raisen and Ujjain districts. And on Tuesday positivity rate of 0.01% was reported. Positivity rate is the number of people testing positive out every 100 samples tested.
On August 31, 61,096 samples were tested and of it 10 were found positive, thus on an average 1 person, out of every around 6100 who were tested, was found to be positive. A total of 6 people recovered from the disease on Tuesday. With these people recovering the number of people who have recovered so far from the disease reached 7,81,580. Apart from it, no death was reported in the state on Tuesday and the death toll due to covid-19 remained 10516.
